The Art of Medicine in the Age of Homer

Last autumn, as you will remember, men invalided with dysentery from the Peninsula of Gallipoli came in large numbers into English military hospitals. As they grew better they had much to tell of Mudros and of the fighting on the northern shores of the Dardanelles. Their stories called up memories of another and more successful expedition which gathered in the great Bay of Lemnos three thousand years ago, and landed on the southern shore of the Hellespont to lay siege to the citadel of Troy. The history of a small and most tragic portion of their ten years' warfare is found in the verses of Homer. Imbedded in this wonderful