Sinopsis

In classical mythology, no less a personage than Apollo is designated as the god of medicine ; thus intimatins: that the exercise of the restorative art might be pronounced an attribute of Deity. And those ancient sons of iBsculapius, both the Mackaon of Homer, and the Ia/p%$ of Virgil, are eulogised by their respective poets for having, amidst the deafen- ing clamours of contending hosts, bound up the bleeding woimds, and soothed the agonies of expir- ing mortality.