Note 22 — Chapter VI · THE BEGINNINGS OF A RATIONAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE IN GREECE

The word “school,” when employed in the strictly modern sense of that term, means an establishment regularly organized for the purpose of giving instruction. Here, however, it is intended to signify simply that certain places, like Cos, Crotona, Cnidus, etc., had become the rendezvous of men who desired to cultivate—some as teachers, others as disciples or pupils—certain branches of knowledge, or certain doctrines. At a later period (third century B. C.) there was established at Alexandria, Egypt, a well-organized school of medicine closely resembling those of modern times.