Greek vases give representations of
these state doctors at work. Dr. E. Pottier has published one showing
the treatment of a patient in the clinic.(8b)
(8) R. Pohl: De Graecorum medicis publicis, Berolini,
Reimer, 1905; also Janus, Harlem, 1905, X, 491-494.
(8a) J Oehler: Janus, Harlem, 1909, XIV, 4; 111.
(8b) E. Pottier: Une clinique grecque au Ve siecle,
Monuments et Memoires, XIII, p. 149. Paris, 1906 (Fondation
Eugene Piot).
That dissections were practiced by this group of nature philosophers is
shown not only by the studies of Alcmaeon, but we have evidence that one
of the latest of them, Diogenes of Apollonia, must have made elaborate
dissections. In the "Historia Animalium"(9) of Aristotle occurs his
account of the blood vessels, which is by far the most elaborate met
with in the literature until the writings of Galen. It has, too, the
great merit of accuracy (if we bear in mind the fact that it was not
until after Aristotle that arteries and veins were differentiated), and
indications are given as to the vessels from which blood may be drawn.
(9) The Works of Aristotle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Vol.
IV, 1910, Bk. III, Chaps. II-IV, pp.
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