Then, I said, we must put a question to Homer; not about medicine, or any of the arts to which his poems only incidentally refer: we are not going to ask him, or any other poet, whether he has cured patients like Asclepius, or left behind him a school of medicine such as the
Asclepiads were, or whether he only talks about medicine and other arts at second hand; but we have a right to know respecting military tactics, politics, education, which are the chiefest and noblest subjects of his poems, and we may fairly ask him about them.
The
Asclepiad: a book of original research and observation in the science, art, and literature of medicine, preventive and curative, vol 1, pp 138-155.
There are also, however, elegiac couplets and poems composed in
Asclepiad, glyconic, hexameter, and iambic metres, etc., revealing another reason why Macrin has been called the "French Horace."
(Malvaceae), and in a flowering
asclepiad [23], with eggs laid in clusters of 200-300 eggs [24].
Species numbers and progress in
asclepiad taxonomy.
Preeminent among these thinkers were the members of the
Asclepiad medical community on the island of Cos, the most noteworthy of whom was Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), "the father of medicine" (see photo on page 10).
to find the oldest evidence to have reached us of a certain "scientific" formalization of knowledge concerning the interaction of human life and the environment: in the treatise On: Airs, Waters and Places by the
Asclepiad physician, Hippocrates (460?-377?
Moreover, flies travel away from cacti to feeding sites such as
asclepiad vines (M.
The
asclepiad consisted of an aeolic nucleus, a choriamb to which were added more choriambs and iambic or trochaic elements at the end of each line.
In his later paper Kunze (1996: 567) stated that the filament tube in the Asclepiadoideae has evolved by "replacement of the original free filaments by new elements originating from the inward[ly] protruding base[s] of the filaments." He stated as well that these results refute his hypothesis that the basal part of the "
asclepiad filament tube is of receptacular origin" and that, consequently, the "basal tube in the Periplocaceae and the [basal part of the] filament-tube in the Asclepiadaceae are not homologous" (p.
asclepiad - any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae