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Title: St. Thomas's Hospital reports
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: St. Thomas's Hospital (London, England)
Subjects: Medicine,Clinical
Publisher: London, St. Thomas's Hospital (etc.)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ast of the Peloponnesus, and from thatcolonies were founded in various places, the most famousbeing at Athens, Pergamos, Cos, Mycenae, and Cnidos. Thatat Cos was noted because the votive tablets there, which,unfortunately, have never been recovered, contained a morecomplete clinical history than the others ; and some of themwere often quoted by early writers as The Prognoses ofCos. Hippocrates, who belonged to the cult, is said tohave been indebted to these tablets in writing his aphorisms. When Rome had been ravaged by pestilence, an oracle inB.C. 293 told the Romans to fetch ^sculapius from hisgreat sanctuary at Epidaurus. A deputation was sent, anda serpent came out of the temple, glided down to the shore,and ensconced itself in the captains cabin. A few priestsaccompanied it. When the ship reached the mouth of theTiber the snake slipped overboard, swam to an island, andcurled up there. With this arrival the pestilence ceased.A temple was built, and the shrine of ^sculapius was for
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^sculcq-jius and his Sanctuary. 403 centui-ies credited with miraculous cures ; and even at thepresent time there is a popular belief in miraculous cures atthe same place, although glory is given to mediaeval saints,and not to the Greek god. The Sanctuary of ^sculapius. The largest and most famous of the sanctuaries was atEpidaurus ; and. as recent excavations enable us to realisewhat the buildings and arrangements there were, a shortaccount of it may be given before describing what is knownof the methods of treatment. The ruins are found in the centre of a fine open valleyscreened by picturesque hills 2000 feet high, and the site isstill known as To lioov (The Sanctuary) by the peasants. Itextended over a large area, and, besides temples to iEscula-pius. Aphrodite, and Artemis, and large dormitories aswards where the cures were effected, contained, a race-course, an immense theatre—one of the most perfect yetexcavated,—a music-hall, and hostels for patients to lodgein, and luxuri

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