FOOTNOTES[1]"Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Antiq.," Smith, vol. i, p. 150,to which the author is indebted for much of the information herein supplied.
[1]"Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Antiq.," Smith, vol. i, p. 150,to which the author is indebted for much of the information herein supplied.
[1]"Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Antiq.," Smith, vol. i, p. 150,to which the author is indebted for much of the information herein supplied.
The professional incomes of doctors in ancient Greece and Rome varied greatly as at the present day. A few were paid very large fees, but the rank and file did not make more money than was equal to keeping them in decency.
Seleucus paid Erasistratus about £20,000 for curing his son Antiochus. Herodotus mentions that the Æginetans (532B.C.) paid Democedes, from the public treasury, £304 a year; the Athenians afterwards paid him £406 a year, and at Samos he received £422 yearly. Pliny says that Albutius, Arruntius, Calpetanus, Cassius and Rubrius each made close upon £2,000 a year, and that Quintus Stertinius favoured the Emperor by accepting about £4,000 a year when he could have made more in private practice. The surgeon Alcon made a fortune of nearly £100,000 by a few years' practice in Gaul. Pliny states that Manlius Cornutus paid his doctor £2,000 for curing him of a skin disease, and Galen's fee for curing the wife of a consul was about £400 of our money.
INDEX.Academics,56Adamantius,116Adams of Banchory,31,32,124Æsculapius,3,13,14——, College of,6——, temple of,4,14,17Ætius,118Agathinus,87Agrippa,63Alexander of Tralles,119Alexander the Great,38,40,41Alexandria,42Alexandrian School,42Anatomy,27,44,46,76,101,140Andromachus,68,82Antonius Musa,65Antyllus,112Apollo,3,13Apollonius,80——, alleged miracles of,81Aqueducts,9,155Archagathus,5Archiater,6,68Archigenes,88Aretæus,87Aristotle,25,40Asclepiadæ,18,40,44Asclepiades of Prusa,23,51,146Asklepieion of Cos,19Astrology,68Athenæus,86Athletes,147Augustus,63Aurelianus,91Baths, Greek,148——, Roman,149Baths of Caracalla,44,153—— at Pompeii,152Byzantine Period,111Cabalists,128Cælius Aurelianus,91Cæsar, Julius,44,54,55Caligula,67Caracalla,44,153Cassius Felix,89Catacombs,160Cato the Elder,7,8Celsus,48,72——, works of,73Christ, miracles of,138Christianity,128—— and hospitals,133Chrysippos,46Claudius,67Cleombrotus,46Cloaca Maxima,8,159Cnidos,17,44,50Constantine,130Cornelius Agrippa,1Cos,17,44Cremation,159Decline of Healing Art,111—— of Rome,111Democedes,22Democritus,23,25Demon Theories of Disease,136Dietetics,32,103Dioscorides,88Disposal of the dead,159Dogmatic School,23Drainage,159Drug-sellers,59Eclectics,87Elements, the four,39Empirics,23Empiricism,23,48Epicureans,56Erasistratus,45,47Essenes,45,127Euclid,43Eudemus,79Fabiola,135Fees,162Galen,96,146——, influence of,110——, works of,99Gibbon,10,56,120,140Gladiatorial games,130Gladiators,147Gnostics,128Gods of disease,3——, of healing,3,15Gorgias,25Gymnasia,19,145Gymnastics,143——, inventor of medical,146——, opinions of physicians on,146Gymnasiarch,20,144Gynæcology,31,93,107Heliodorus,91Herodicus,25Herodotus,22,91Herophilus,45,46Hippocrates,7,25,146——, sons of,37——, works of,26Hippocratic Law,33——, Oath,35Homer,15,16,148Horatillavus,61Hospitals,133——, founders of,135Hygeia,15Iccus,146Jacobus Psychristus,116Justinian,130Lectisternium,3Leucippus,23Library of Alexandria,43Livy,2,4Machaon,16,17Mæcenas,66Magnus,116Marinus,95Meges of Sidon,79Melampus,15Meletius,116Methodism,23,51,54Miracles of Apollonius,80——, of Christ,138——, of Vespasian,140Mithridates,45Mithridaticum,45Monastic medicine,137Moschion,123Nemesius,116Neoplatonism,112Nero,67,69,70Nerva,81Numa Pompilius,2Obstetrics,31,93Octavianus,55Oculists,70Operations,29,30,78,113——, dental,2Oribasius,87,93,114Orphanages,132Ovid,24Pathology,104Paulus Ægineta,94,113,124Period, anatomic,21,45——, philosophic,21——, primitive,20——, sacred,21Pestilence in Rome,89Philenus of Cos,48Philosophy,56Plague,4,120Plato,25,39Platonists,56Pliny,3,52,65,72,84,146Plutarch,5,7Pneumatism,86Podalarius,16Poisoners, women,70Priest-physicians,1,134Priests,18Proclus,140Ptolemy,43Public health regulations,161Pythagoras,21Pythagoreans,22Quacks,58,61Quintus,95Rhodes,17Roman quacks,58,61Rome,56——, medical practice in,58Rufus of Ephesus,94Saints,138St. Luke,139St. Paul,139,148Sanitation,8,155Sceptics,24Scribonius largus,82Seneca,67,131Serapion,50Serpents,14Sewers,8,9,159Slave-physicians,60Slaves,60Soranus,92Stoics,56,129Suetonius,140Surgery,30,73,107Surgical instruments,90Tacitus,140Temple of Æsculapius,4,14,17Temples,3,4,17Themison of Laodicea,23,53,54Theophrastus,42Theriaca,98Thermæ,152Thessalus of Tralles,83Thrasyllus,66Tiberius,66Vettius Valleus,82Vitruvius,144,157Water supply,63,155Women poisoners,70Wounds of Julius Cæsar,55
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