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 a rhinoceros, supported by two unicorns, armed and ungulated. Upon a compartment to make the achievement complete, this motto: 'Opiferque per orbem dicor.'"

It was William Camden, the famous antiquary and "Clarenceux King at Arms" in James I.'s reign, who hunted out the middle of the above Latin quotation for the newly incorporated Society of Apothecaries.

Æsculapius left two sons, who continued their father's profession, and three or four daughters. It is not possible to be chronologically exact with these semi-mythical personages, but according to the usual reckoning Æsculapius lived about 1250 He would have been contemporary with Gideon, a judge of Israel, about two centuries after the death of Moses, and two centuries before the reign of King David. His sons Machaon and Podalirus were immortalised in the Iliad among the Greek heroes who fought before Troy, and they exercised their surgical and medical skill on their