TY  - JOUR
T1  - HIppocrates and the plane tree on the island of cos
AU  - KATZ AM
Y1  - 1959/10/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100139025
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 653
EP  - 657
VL  - 104
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100139025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270100139025
ER  -