Hippocrates and the newly discovered health temple at Cos / Richard Caton.

  • Caton, Richard, 1842-1926.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Hippocrates and the newly discovered health temple at Cos / Richard Caton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    and valuable, and to the denial and the casting off of all that was useless and superstitious. While he reverenced the supreme gods, he had more confidence in rest, pure air, exercise, diet, remedies, and on the restorative powers of .nature than on the interposition of Asklepios or the influence of the sacred serpents. In fact, in this building, under the guidance of Hippocrates, medicine probably arose as a helpful instrumentality, based on foundations scientific and practical, and in a nobler form than the world had ever seen, for the relief of the sufferings of mankind. [E. C.] LONDON : pJtrWTKD BT WILLIAM CT/)WR8 AND SONS. LIMITED ©EKAT WINDMILL STRUCT, W., AND DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET. S.E.