RT Journal
A1 KATZ AM
T1 HIppocrates and the plane tree on the island of cos
JF A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
JO A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1959
FD October 1
VO 104
IS 4
SP 653
OP 657
DO 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100139025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100139025
AB Beside a fountain's sacred brink we raised Our verdant altars, and the victims blazed: 'Twas where the plane-tree spread its shades around, The altars heaved; and from the crumbling ground A mighty dragon shot, of dire portent; From Jove himself the dreadful sign was sent. Straight to the tree his sanguine spires he roll'd And curled aroundThe altars heaved ; and from the crumbling ground A mighty dragon shot, of dire portent; From Jove himself the dreadful sign was sent. Straight to the tree his sanguine spires he roll'd And curled around in many a winding fold. . . .Iliad ii1The small Greek island of Cos bears some of the most remarkable links between Hippocrates and the modern world. In addition to the ruins of a great temple of Aesculapius, there stands an ancient plane tree under whose shade Hippocrates may have sat and taught his students.