... rise and progress of medical science in Greece, for it cannotbe too strongly emphasized that Roman philosophy and Roman medicine were borrowed from the Greeks, and it is certain also that the Greeks ... underlying and hidden causes of disease and heldundisputed sway until the foundation of the Empirical Sect at Alexandria.CHAPTER III. 29Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine, byJames Sands Elliott ... Apollo, the physician, and Æsculapius, and Health, and Panacea, and all the gods and goddesses,that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this oath and this stipulation to reckon him...