The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-12-22
DRUG T0RESAND
HE:D0DECENESE
Harks Back to HAppoerates, Fa-
Their of ModeSh Medicine.
'DRuellSLAND' NOW HERB[ESs
Pharmako, Called the "Drug islands
Psrpetuates its Claim to Being First
Drug Store In World by Title "Phar.
O." Held by Every Man Authorized
to Fin Your Observation-Disclosures
Of the Islands Wa Home OF Hippoo-
rates.. @f


to Fin Your Observation-Disclosures
81 the isiands Was Home OF Hippoo-
rates.
Busy Babbit is apt to skip the item,
"1taly Announce ~Cession of Dode
canese Invalid, Pending Lausanne Con-
ference the exclamation:
"Whatnare these Greeks to met 1
build bungalows, not Greek temples /;
and I haven't time for the theaters or
the art galleries."
On the way home, however, Bnbbit
calls at the doctors Office. 'Been;ia lit
tie Sluggish lind he takes athe pre-
scriptionlt to afdrag store.
"Thatsnwhen the DOdecanese come
in," ayEsa bulletin from the Washing
ton headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society.
"On Kos. second largest Of the Dode-
canese. lived Hippocrates, the father
of modern medicine. For service to
mankind this intellectual colossus OF
Kos deserves to overshadow the dHani-e
mate colossus Of Rhodes, the largest
island In the chain that struggles from
Samos TOWARD Crete. +
"Pharnaako, or the island Of herbs, Is
now herbiess. But tifs drug island
occupied some years ago by "a single
family, Pefpetuates Its claim to being
the first drug store in the world by
the title sPhar. D. held by every man
authorized to I'LL your prescription.
"Pharfaake Is not one OF the mnjoF
LAM units which give the group its
name-Twelve Islands, Ever some OF
the twelve are. or have been. uninhab-
tied, andLon none OF their rocky sur
faces are the residents s~eif-sustaining.
Dsrs qsFt MISREPRESENTATION leaves
when, In 1921, Kalymnos. just north
u Kos. gav up its losing fight and
cent a lafesi0a to surrender to Sultan
Suleiman, the delegates took along a
highly suggestive geographical exhibit.
The gifts they bore consisted I of
n and whffe slea3 . THE FIRST
symbo1ized rsprincipal indtstry-
and today the sponges piled on the
drug store counter most likely were
collected by a Dodecanese diver-whiie
the white bread showed the islanders
need Of wheat from the mainland OF
Asia I since they could not I've
upon corn2of their own growing.
when thu sponge-grounds in the
Aegean became depletsd the Dodecan-
ese divers discovered other beds on
TEipoli md when Italy virtually made J
4 monopoly Of the nsfiefieS@ there sop'~ /,
OF the divers Jared as far way from
home AssTarpon Springs, Fla, to ply
their preeAF1eus trade.
"Patmos, northernmost OF group.
known wherever. the Bible is read be-
cause it's cave sheltered ST. John, was !
~withoutyga single inhabitant in the
Twelfthscentury.
AIt loMgs has5Nbeenka ssaying TINT The
Greek Islands IRE more Greek h
Greece. The : DodeeAnese are -sRmong
the most Greek yof ill the isldnds.
Homer knew them alrand mentions the
leaders sunder which their armies took
part In the expedition against Troy.
Zone sssort of ruins of the time OF
Hippocrates may well. be considered
the precursor of another humane 2in-
stitution If mod1rns1ife, the hoSpital.
On Kos4mayibe Seen tho sbase stones
and colatans OF al Asclepion. one of
those Institutions, which blended the
modern Afunctiohs OF 2 temple. a sani-
tarfum and q clinic. BY incantatlonAb
charms .asand si~itthcr&ft the aaselep4a
sought TO- heal the sick. and 1T waa
against these practices that Hippoc-
rates rotSlled. He was not permitted
to dissecfshu1nAM bodies, butshtsA study
of aninl14s and a comparison of their
habits, s4nQtOny and sfune4iOns with
those ofs1Ehan gave him q remarkable T.
basis for Ola gnosis OF human life. Els
about diet and regimen for the
sick. 3 example, are remarkably
when 1t Is considefedshe wasaa /
pioneer spf this field.
HOaitna-Arte Among Greeks.
sATo uktny sufferers the faith cures
the asclspiaNWerei p0teHt
were kept in physical condition
the .59ymnasta, but HlRpocfatss'
asa geo especially, Boon
spread I'll. Thus these remote Aegean
Islands : three therapeutic schools
which c~OrfespOnded Stosrour modern
practitioners OF mental healing. medi-
eal practitioners and physical cultur- !,
8
"GeoloRicafly the stands are frnGrEs.
nents OF "A Minor, torn way by :
remote volcanic upheRval, The :
,poradics formation OF the group is At :
:ested by their other name, Sporades, ;
them In contrast to the Cycfades, :
70 called because. of their circular ar :
/.
''Shoulds you visit athome in Rhodes :
,ou wouldxget a n-st impression that
member OF the household has q
lobby for collecting curious, hetero- Z
,eneous 6ssortments Of plates. When :
child Isl born custom DEGREES that q :
be. added to the family collec- =
and the pattern OF this plateemuSt :
= distincfive. Hence a geaealDnysfe
orded ~infplatters wluch, AZ they AfS
ne famousf Rhodian ware b4ves great
eauty add.a high price. since only ex- :
stress OK 4 generous offer would .
npel a hEiiiy to part witheAnyaofAshe 9
Rmily tree