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A dissertation on the state of physicians among the old Romans, in which it is proved to have been servile and ignoble: against the assertions of the celebrated Dr. James Spon, and Dr. Richard Mead / Translated from the Latin.

  • Conyers Middleton
Date:
1734
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Credit: A dissertation on the state of physicians among the old Romans, in which it is proved to have been servile and ignoble: against the assertions of the celebrated Dr. James Spon, and Dr. Richard Mead / Translated from the Latin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thing lefs credible. But Ms thought the man Money was coined in Memory of a | Temple built to the Goddefs of Health, which Junius BuBULCUSthe Didator dedicated A. U. 451. on account of a Vow he made when ! Conful. p And the Acilian denotes feme j Office or Magiftracy happily minified, which i was inftituted to defend the Health of the j People againft a Plague, or feme contagious I Diftcmper^ as learned Men think by the In- ] feription, MV. ACIL1VS. Ill VIR. VALETV. f Why then fhould we not think with Patin, 1 that the Rubrtan Coin, (in which is denoted j and exprefied the latroduftion of Mfculapius into the City) referred to fome lingular Ser~ | vice done the Republick on that Occafion, or j to the Expences of that Family in building I and beautifying his Temple ? But let us pals : over thofe private Citizens ; we fee very : often on the Coin of the Emperors the fame Image of Health, to fignify, without Doubt, Health publickly given by the Prince or Em¬ peror, or Angularly to fome fpecial Citizens 5 * or ? T. Liv.l. 10. i, q Dio tells us. That when a Confpiraey againft Augufius was detected, of which Cn. Cornelius, the Grandfbn of Tompey the Great by his Daughter, was Head, the Confpirators, by the Advice and IntercefTion of Livia Augufta, not only obtain’d Pardon from the Emperor, but Honours and Preferment [CasfL Aug, |. yy. p. 8yfJ To perpetrate the Memory ef this, ’tis