Cnidus
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Mechanics Sirs: Medical charlatans have existed since the beginning of history and doubtless will always exist; even Hippocrates had his contention with the school at Cnidus.
From Time Magazine Archive
She discovered the head in London's British Museum among fragments brought back from Cnidus by the English archaeologist Sir Charles Newton more than a century ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cnidus lay on the western edge of a long and narrow promontory.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
Being furnished with ships at Rhodes, he also prevailed upon the inhabitants of Cos and Cnidus, to leave the king's side, and join in an expedition against the Samians.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
The earliest medical school of which we have definite information is that of Cnidus, a Lacedaemonian colony in Asiatic Doris.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
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