Chapter 15

Book 29, Chapters 1 to 10. The origin of the medical art; Particulars relative to Hippocrates. Date of the origin of clinical practice; The Empiric branch of medicine; The various changes that have been made in the system of Medicine; 6. Who first practised as a physician at Rome, and at what period; The opinions entertained by the Romans on the ancient physicians; Evils attendant upon the practice of medicine; Thirty-five remedies derived from wool; Thirty-two remedies derived from wool-grease.

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