. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . feast of Saints Cosmasand Damian on 1 July, 17 October, and 1 November,and venerates three pairs of saints of the same name andprofession. Cosmas and Damian are regarded as thepatrons of physicians and surgeons and are sometimes landi in his Bibliotheca veterum patrum (Venice,1776), and in Migne, P. G. (Paris, 1864), LXXXVIII,51-476. A French translation of the most importantparts is found in Charton, ^oyageurs anciens etmodernes (Paris, 1855
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . feast of Saints Cosmasand Damian on 1 July, 17 October, and 1 November,and venerates three pairs of saints of the same name andprofession. Cosmas and Damian are regarded as thepatrons of physicians and surgeons and are sometimes landi in his Bibliotheca veterum patrum (Venice,1776), and in Migne, P. G. (Paris, 1864), LXXXVIII,51-476. A French translation of the most importantparts is found in Charton, ^oyageurs anciens etmodernes (Paris, 1855); a complete English transla-tion, with notes and a critical introduction, was issuedfor the Hakluyt Society by J. W. McCrindle (London,1897). The work is divided into twelve books andcontains a description of the univnrse, as Cosmas con-structed it in his imagination, and an account of thoseregions which he had visited, or concerning which hehad gathered information. According to Cosmas theworld is a rectangular structure in two sections, theirlength much greater than their breadth, and corres-ponding in form and proportions to the Tabernacle of. Ab Phtbicians Cast into the bE.\ Ihe Decapitation Scenes from the Lives of Sts. Cosmas and Damian (Fra Angelico, Gallery of Ancient and Modern Art, Florence) represented with medical emblems. They are in-voked in the (Janon of the Mass and in the Litany ofthe Saints. Acta S^., 27 Sept.; SchTjEyer in Kirckenlex.; Alois, DasLebcn und Wirken d. hi. CosTnas und Damian, Patrone derAerzte (Vienna, 1870); Deubner, Kosma^ und Da-mxan(Leipzig, 1907). Gabriel Meier. Cosmas Indicopleustes (Cosmas the IndianVoyager), a Greek traveller and geographer of thefirst half of the sixth century, b. at Alexandria, probably received only an elementary ecluca-tion, as he was intended for a mercantile life, and inhis earlier years was engaged in business pursuits. Itmay be, however, that by further study he increasedhis knowledge, since his not
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