was the centre of a medical school which was transferred to Laodicea itself. Its doctors were so famous that the names of some appear on the coins of Laodicea. Two of them were called Zeuxis and Alexander Philalethes. This medical school was famous throughout the world for two things—ointment for the ear and ointment for the eyes. The Authorized and Revised Standard Versions speak of eye-salve. The word for salve is kollurion, which literally means a little roll of bread. The derivation of this word