MENECRATES, a physician of Syracuse, who flourished about 360 B. C. is famous for his skill in his profession, but much more for his vanity. He would always be followed by some of the patients whom he had cured, one dressed like Apollo, another like Esculapius, a third like Hercules, &c. As for himself, he would be called Jupiter. He wrote a letter to Philip the father of Alexander the Great, with this supercription, "Menecrates Jupiter to king Philip, Health." When that prince ridiculed him by replying, "Philip to Menecrates, Health and Good Sense." Menecrates composed a book of Remedies, which is lost.