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48 ANCIENT TIMES.
especially mathematics and philosophy, were ardently
pursued* Not long after this the Asklepiadae-Schools of „
Knidos and Kos flourished. Unfortunately the writingst
of THEOPOMPOS, treating of these, have been lost: but we
possess in the Hippokratic collection a source giving us
valuable information concerning their performances and
individual administration. According to it there existed
between these two schools essential differences in respect
of medical theories and methods of investigation and
treatment. The doctors of Knidos were good observers
and skilful surgeons, showed an interest in scientific questions
and liked treatment to be as simple as possible. \ v
Since, however the work in which their maxims, were
collected, namely the Knidian Sentences, has not been
handed down to us, if we wish to form a conception of
their scientific significance we are obliged to refer to the
few remarks made upon the subject by other writers of
antiquity. They proceed for the most part from opponents of
the Knidian-school and are consequently neither favourable
nor just. The reproach is made against the latter that it was
» contented with inquiring into the subjective complaints of
the sick and in consequence neglected the accurate objective
investigation of their bodies.^ The Knidian doctors
were further blamed in that they divided diseases accord-.
ing to the various parts and organs of the body, and distinguished
between too many forms of disease. They laid
it down as a law, for instance, that there were seven kinds
of diseases of the bile, twelve of the bladder, four of the
kidneys, as many kinds of strangury, three forms of
i tetanus, four of jaundice, three of consumption and several
forms of quinsey, assigning chiefly the exciting causes as
The points of distinction between them.§ Their descrip-
* Cf. HouDART : Histoire de la me'decine grecque depuis Esculape jusqu' a
HIPPOCRATE, Paris 1856, p. 128 et seq. •-1 ;
f Photii Bibl. p. i2o b ed. BEKKER.
;
X HIPPOCRATES op. cit. T. ii, p. 224.