...chariot, haste with speed away, •* And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'cl our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. The terms here uj]g«$ a«i£ should evidently be translated not " physician," but simply a person...

...thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.' Old Nestor mounts the seat : beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god. He lends the...

...Kcsi Oa On another occasion, Homer shows the high estimation in which the profession was held :— " A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, " Is more than armies to the public weal."f Of Podalirius too, it is said, that on his return from the destruction of Tro)', he was driven...

...with. He was by birth, some authors write, A Russian, some a Muscovite, • ' A wiie pbysician skiU' d our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. * And 'mong the Cossaeks had been bred, Of whom we in Diurnals read, That serve to fill up pages here,...

...was one of the physicians to the Grecian army at the siege of Troy, says, " A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Spenser, in his Fairy Queen, uses the word leech in the same sense that Butler here does, to imply...

...thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.' Old Nestor mounts the seat: beside him rode The wounded oft'spring of the healing god. He lends the...

...Order. R.VNl'NCtLACE.E. No. 1097. The ancient poets make Peeon a physician of merit, and of value — "A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." ILIAD 11, 637. Thus says Homer, and he makes Paeon, to cure Pluto of a wound, inflicted by Hercules,...

...gratitude to the indefatigable labours of this distinguished individual. " A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, " Is more than armies to the Public Weal." It would be unpardonable to pass unnoticed, even in this short survey, the very popular and scientific...

...of a stinking carcase than a living soul, cannot think, with Homer, that The sage physician, skillM our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal ¡ else they would not employ their ingenuity in finding means to check that science which a few years...

...medical men, Machaon and Podalirius, sons of Asclepios, an unrivalled physician. Of the former he said : A wise physician skilled our wounds to heal Is more than armies to the public weal. i" Twelfth Night," Act IV., Sc. II. That Xenophon, for example, recommended black as a restorative...