Newton, Charles T. [Hrsg.]; Pullan, Richard P. [Hrsg.]: A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 2) (London, 1863)

GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 753

marble the E in 'Ettikputt) lias the middle trans-
verse stroke omitted. The dedication makes it pro-
bable that this inscription was originally placed
in a temple of /Escnlapius. It is well known that
Cnidus was the seat of a school of medicine, rather
popular than scientific, which based its dogmas on
the records of diseases inscribed on tablets dedi-
cated in the temple of the god, from whom the
native physicians claimed descent, styling them-
selves Asclepiadas. Ctesias was one of this gens.—
On this Cnidian school of medicine, see Sprengel,
Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte d. Arznei-
kunde, eel. Halle, 1821, pp. 313-1; Ilippokrates, de
vict. acut. init.

No. 36, Plate XCII.

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On a slab of blue marble 16" by 8£" by If,

found near the fountain marked in the Plan of

Cnidus. In the British Museum. This is a fragment

of a decree of the people of Cnidus which appears

ii. 3 ii