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1 Hippocrates is generally supposed to have been born B.C. 460.
2 In order to destroy the medical books and prescriptions there. The same story is told, with little variation, of Avicenna. Cnidos is also mentioned as the scene of this act of philosophical incendiarism.
3 "Clinice"—Chamber-physic, so called because the physician visited his patients ἐν κλίνη, "in bed."
4 It is supposed by most commentators that Pliny commits a mistake here, and that in reality he is alluding to Herodicus of Selymbria in Thrace, who was the tutor, and not the disciple, of Hippocrates. Prodicus of Selymbria does not appear to be known.
5 "Healing by ointments," or, as we should call it at the present day, "The Friction cure."
6 "Mediastinis."
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