Note 42 — Chapter XV · CLAUDIUS GALEN

Hippocrates, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Asclepiades, Themison, Celsus, Soranus and Athenaeus. Daremberg calls attention to the fact that, although we possess to-day only a few fragments of the writings of Archigenes, those few are of such a degree of excellence that we may well ask ourselves whether Galen was not perfectly justified in placing such a high estimate as he appears to have done upon the merits of this writer,—and that, too, notwithstanding the unfavorable criticism which he makes in the present paragraph about the author’s failure at times to write with sufficient clearness on medical subjects.