due to a disturbed movement of the atoms. Diet, exercise,
massage and bathing were his great remedies, and his motto--tuto, cito
et jucunde--has been the emulation of all physicians. How important
a role he and his successors played until the time of Galen may be
gathered from the learned lectures of Sir Clifford Allbutt(32) on "Greek
Medicine in Rome" and from Meyer-Steineg's "Theodorus Priscianus und die
romische Medizin."(33) From certain lay writers we learn that it was the
custom for popular physicians to be followed on their rounds by crowds
of students. Martial's epigram (V, ix) is often referred to:

Languebam: sed tu comitatus protinus ad me
Venisti centum, Symmache, discipulis.
Centum me tegigere manus Aquilone gelatae
Non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo.

(32) Allbutt: British Medical Journal, London, 1909, ii, 1449;
1515; 1598.

(33) Fischer, Jena, 1909.

And in the "Apollonius of Tyana" by Philostratus, when Apollonius
wishes to prove an alibi, he calls to witness the physicians of his sick
friend, Seleucus and Straloctes, who were accompanied by their clinical
class to the number of about thirty students.(34) But for a first-hand
sketch of the condition of the profession we must go to Pliny, whose
account in the twenty-ninth book of the "Natural History" is one of the
most interesting and amusing chapters in that delightful work. He quotes
Cato's tirade against Greek physicians,--corrupters of the race, whom he
would have banished from the city,--then he sketches the career of some
of the more famous of the physicians under the Empire, some of whom must
have had incomes never approached at any other period in the history of
medicine. The chapter gives a good picture of the stage on which Galen
(practically a contemporary of Pliny) was to play so important a role.
Pliny seems himself to have been rather disgusted with the devious paths
of the doctors of his day, and there is no one who has touched with
stronger language upon the weak points of the art of physic. In one
place he says that it alone has this peculiar art and privilege, "That
whosoever professeth himself a physician, is straightwaies beleeved, say
what he will: and yet to speake a truth, there are no lies dearer sold
or more daungerous than those which proceed out of a Physician's mouth.
Howbeit, we never once regard or look to that, so blind we are in our
deepe persuasion of them, and feed our selves