Arizona republican., 1903-09-17
THE ANCIENT TEMPLE OF HEALTH
Discovery of the Long Lost Temple Of
the Father OF Medicine.

of lost gods and the palaces of forgot
ten kings. Not only centuries. but
thousands of years, are turned back as
the excava ,ors turn over the earth,
and the traveller of today can tread the
courts of Priam's palace and read the
writings in the library of Sardinapolus.
The latest important archae illogical
discovery is that OF DR.. Rudolph Her.
zog who has brought to light the long
| lost temple of Aesculapius. the father
CT medicine. who was worshiped as
! god in the island of Cos, in the Aegean
sea.
For nearly 1000 years this, the great
| est of all the temples erected to Aes-
| cula Plus. has been lost to the world.
| LIT Herzog discovered it under the
ruins of a Byzantine church erected
! early in the Christian era to the Bless
| ed Virgin of Tarsus.
! The earth was rich above the ruins
! of the early Christian church and the
ancient Greek temple, and so covered
/ with plants and shrubs blooming amid
| the wrecks of time that the inhabitant
of the island call the place the garden
/ of the flower buds
| Digging down the entrance to the
temple was reached. and over it the ex-
I
there when the world was young:
'Sundry elders from different states
! have decided by vote to carry on this
; holy asylum to Aesculapius.
! Columns were found. some standing
whole and some thrown down and bro
ken. and votive offerings left by people
J who had ben cured of disease by the
power of the god of the shrine.
/ They also found a statue of Hygeia
! ana a serpent carved in stone, the SYM
Dol of Aesculaipius; and other discov
cries are constantly being made as the
work advances.
| 1t is expected soon to uncover the IA
nous tablets on which are recorded ac-
counts of famous cures and descrip-
lions of disease and remedies, from
which Hippocrates is supposed to have
compiled his book on medicine. the
first book on that science ever publish
ed in the world.
Aescula plus was the first medical
practitioner Of whom we have any ac-
count. and he lived so long ago that he
had already become n god when au-
! thentic history opens. He formed a
little medical trust all by himself. and,
being the only doctor in the world at
the time. had things pretty much his
.
practitioner, toe successful for his own
good, for he saved so many lives that
Pluto, the god of the Internal regions
complained to Jupiter that the lower
world was being depopulated by him
rot enough people coming in 10 keep VI
the population. SO Jupiter killed Aes-
culupius with 9. thunderbolt.
When the temple at Cos was in its
glory, the sick flccked to it from al
the countries lying on the eastern
Shores of the Mediterranean. and the
priests waxed rich on their votive Of
ferings.
The patient was made to take a bath
and then to fast for twenty-four hours
After this he went into the temple and
gave up his consultation fee. which was
called votive offering, and was placed
before the statue of the doctor. ThsT
priest led him around the temple. e1l-
planning mysteries and telling him the
wonderful cures Which had been ac-
complished., The doctors of those time:
believed in advertising, and all about
the temple were tablets with inscrip-
tons, which must have read much like
the patent medicine advertisements OF
, today
After taking a dose of physic the pa
tient sacrificed a rooster or a sheep IL
Aesculapius and repeated certain hymns
and prayers which the doctor priest
having him in charge read to him
Then, if he was rich, he went to sleeI
on cot near the statue of the god
who appeared to him in the course o.
the night and prescribed for him. L
: he was poor he slept outside in the TEN
pie gardens, and the god visited hin
there.
: The doctors of the temple seem t'
: have been faith curists to some extent
. for they impressed upon their patient:
that unless they had absolute faith the,
could not be cured.
When a patient died they said it wa:
: simply a lack of faith that killed him.
Aristides died in the temple of Cos
He was a sick man when he reached
: there, and the god appeared in tn
: night and prescribed hemlock and gyp
sum and blood letting. The great MAJ
7 grew worse and the god appeared agail
and prescribed more blood letting, di
recting that 100 ounces of blood shoult
: be drawn from him. Aristides. nat
urally, died. and the doctorpriests an
/ nounced that his demise was due to hi
lack of faith.
1t is expected that a most curious as
sortment of ancient surgical fnstru
: ments will be unearthed in the tempt
: of Cos. for every man who invented ;
: new contrivance of that kind was OBJ
liged to deposit it with the priests, Wit
thus ran a sort of medical and surgical
l patent office, as every inventor of n new
5 remedy was obliged to inscribe his dis
covery on the gates or pillars of thu
temple.
< This celebrated temple was not sucl
: large building after all. the explora
! lions showing that il must have beer
about the size of an ordinary city bust
ness BUILDING.
LOVE DOESN'T KILL