are mixed of these, which all contain,
And into these are all resolved again."

Fire was considered to be matter in a very refined form, and to closely
resemble life or even soul.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Wheelwright's translation of "Pindar."

[2] Arctinus, "Ethiopis." Translated in Puschmann's "Hist. Med.
Education."

[3] Caton, _Brit. Med. Journ._, 1906, i, p. 571.

[4] Dryden's translation, book xv.

CHAPTER III.

HIPPOCRATES.

His life and works--His influence on Medicine.

_Hippocrates_, the Father of Medicine, was born at Cos during the golden
age of Greece, 460 years before Christ. He belonged to the family of the
Asclepiadae, and, according to tradition, could trace his ancestors on
the male side to AEsculapius, and on the female side to Hercules. He is
said to have received his medical education from his father and from
Herodicus, and to have been taught philosophy by Gorgias, the Sophist,
and by Democritus, whom he afterwards cured of mental derangement.

There was a very famous medical school at Cos, and the temple there held
the notes of the accumulated experience of his predecessors, but
Hippocrates visited also, for the purpose of study, various towns of
Greece, and particularly Athens. He was a keen observer, and took
careful notes of his observations. His reputation was such that his
works are quoted by Plato and by Aristotle, and there are references to
him by Arabic writers. His descendants published their own writings
under his name, and there were also many forgeries, so that it is
impossible to know exactly how many of the works attributed to him are
authentic; but by a consensus of opinion the following books are
considered genuine: "Prognostics," seven of the books of "Aphorisms,"
"On Airs, Waters and Places," "On Regimen in Acute Diseases," the first
and third books of "Epidemics," "On the Articulations," "On Fractures,"
the treatise on "Instruments of Reduction," and "The Oath"; and the
books considered almost certainly genuine are those dealing with
"Ancient Medicine," "Surgery," "The Law," "Fistulae," "Ulcers,"
"Haemorrhoids," and "On the Sacred Disease" (Epilepsy). The famous
Hippocratic Collection in the great libraries of Alexandria and Pergamos
also comprised the writings of Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle.

The genius of Hippocrates is unsurpassed in the history of medicine. He
was the first to trace disease to a natural and intelligible cause, and
to recogniz