The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe

BOOK I.

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_THE MEDICINE OF PRIMITIVE MAN._ CHAPTER PAGE I. PRIMITIVE MAN A SAVAGE 3 The Medicine and Surgery of the Lower Animals.—Poisons and Animals.—Observation amongst Savages.—Man in the Glacial Period. II. ANIMISM 7 Who discovered our Medicines?—Anthropology can assist us to answer the Question.—The Priest and the Medicine-man originally one.—Disease the Work of Magic.—Origin of our Ideas of the Soul and Future Life.—Disease-demons. III. SAVAGE THEORIES OF DISEASE 12 Demoniacal.—Witchcraft.—Offended Dead Persons. IV. MAGIC AND SORCERY IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE 26 These originated partly in the Desire to cover Ignorance. —Medicine-men.—Sucking out Diseases.—Origin of Exorcism.—Ingenuity of the Priests.—Blowing Disease away.—Beelzebub cast out by Beelzebub.—Menders of Souls.—“Bringing up the Devil.”—Diseases and Medicines.—Fever Puppets.—Amulets.—Totemism and Medicine. V. PRIMITIVE MEDICINE 33 Bleeding.—Scarification.—Use of Medicinal Herbs amongst the Aborigines of Australia, South America, Africa, etc. VI. PRIMITIVE SURGERY 40 Arrest of Bleeding.—The Indian as Surgeon.—Stretchers, Splints, and Flint Instruments.—Ovariotomy.—Brain Surgery.—Massage.—Trepanning. —The Cæsarean Operation.—Inoculation. VII. UNIVERSALITY OF THE USE OF INTOXICANTS 46 Egyptian Beer and Brandy.—Mexican Pulque.—Plant-worship.—Union with the Godhead by Alcohol.—Soma.—The Cow-religion.—Caxiri.—Murwa Beer.—Bacchic Rites.—Spiritual Exaltation by Wine. VIII. CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH PREGNANCY AND CHILD-BEARING 51 The Couvade, its Prevalence in Savage and Civilized Lands.—Pregnant Women excluded from Kitchens.—The Deities of the Lying-in Chamber.

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1. Chapter 1 2. BOOK I. 3. BOOK II. 4. BOOK III. 5. BOOK IV. 6. BOOK V. 7. BOOK VI. 8. BOOK I. 9. CHAPTER I. 10. CHAPTER II. 11. CHAPTER III. 12. CHAPTER IV. 13. CHAPTER V. 14. CHAPTER VI. 15. CHAPTER VII. 16. CHAPTER VIII. 17. BOOK II. 18. CHAPTER I. 19. CHAPTER II. 20. 5. _Disease of the liver_. 6. _Hypochondria_. 7. _Hysteria_. 8. 21. 12. _Fevers_ in general (Matt. viii. 14, etc.). 13. _Pestilence_ 22. 23. _Cancer_ (2 Tim. ii. 17). 24. _Worms_; may have been phthiriasis 23. 28. _Lethargy_ (Gen. ii. 21; 1 Sam. xxvi. 12). 29. _Paralysis_, palsy 24. CHAPTER III. 25. 29. For the spell the invocation of heaven may he repeat the invocation 26. 38. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 27. 48. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 28. 58. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 29. 68. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 30. 78. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 31. 88. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 32. 92. may it drive out the spell and I shall be free. 33. CHAPTER IV. 34. 6. The Vedānta, by Bādarāyana or Vyāsa. 35. CHAPTER V. 36. CHAPTER VI. 37. BOOK III. 38. CHAPTER I. 39. CHAPTER II. 40. 1. Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but owing to the 41. 2. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought 42. 3. Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of 43. 4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and 44. 5. Those things which are sacred are to be imparted only to sacred 45. CHAPTER III. 46. CHAPTER IV. 47. 17. Celsus, _De Medicina Libri Octo_, of which the fifth treats of 48. 22. Marcellus Empiricus, _De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, ac 49. CHAPTER V. 50. CHAPTER VI. 51. 2. The _Magical_, with extraordinary figures, superstitious words, 52. BOOK IV. 53. CHAPTER I. 54. 900. The sources of the information he ascribes to Oxa, Dun, and 55. 2. He is to have his land free: his horse in attendance: and his linen 56. 3. His seat in the hall within the palace is at the base of the pillar 57. 5. His protection is, from the time the king shall command him to visit 58. 6. He is to administer medicine gratuitously to all within the palace, 59. 7. The mediciner is to have, when he shall apply a tent, twenty-four 60. 14. The mediciner is to take an indemnification from the kindred of the 61. 18. His worth is six score and six kine, to be augmented.” 62. CHAPTER II. 63. CHAPTER III. 64. 529. The religious houses of this order, of which Monte Cassino was the 65. CHAPTER IV. 66. CHAPTER V. 67. CHAPTER VI. 68. CHAPTER VII. 69. 1325. Though he had a penetrating faculty of observation, he was not 70. CHAPTER VIII. 71. CHAPTER IX. 72. BOOK V. 73. CHAPTER I. 74. 1518. The king was moved to this by the example of similar institutions 75. CHAPTER II. 76. CHAPTER III. 77. CHAPTER IV. 78. CHAPTER V. 79. CHAPTER VI. 80. CHAPTER VII. 81. 1774. The greatest teacher of surgery in Germany, A. G. Richter, gave 82. 1734. He was the author of several medical treatises, one of which 83. BOOK VI. 84. CHAPTER I. 85. CHAPTER II. 86. CHAPTER III. 87. introduction of wholly new and startling ideas. 88. 1608. BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY, or CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, is the _ruskapoor_ 89. 337. Boniveh, _Tasmanians_, pp. 183, 195.

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