The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe
BOOK II.
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_THE MEDICINE OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS._
I. EGYPTIAN MEDICINE 57
Antiquity of Egyptian Civilization.—Surgical Bandaging.—Gods
and Goddesses of Medicine.—Medical Specialists.—Egyptians
claimed to have discovered the Healing Art.—Medicine largely
Theurgic.—Magic and Sorcery forbidden to the Laity.—The
Embalmers.—Anatomy.—Therapeutics.—Plants in use in Ancient
Egypt.—Surgery and Chemistry.—Disease-demons.—Medical Papyri.—Great
Skill of Egyptian Physicians.
II. JEWISH MEDICINE 73
The Jews indebted to Egypt for their Learning.—The only Ancient
People who discarded Demonology.—They had no Magic of their
own.—Phylacteries.—Circumcision.—Sanitary Laws.—Diseases in
the Bible.—The Essenes.—Surgery in the Talmud.—Alexandrian
Philosophy.—Jewish Services to Mediæval Medicine.—The Phœnicians.
III. THE MEDICINE OF CHALDÆA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA 86
The Ancient Religion of Accadia akin to Shamanism.—Demon
Theory of Disease in Chaldæan Medicine.—Chaldæan Magic.—Medical
Ignorance of the Babylonians.—Assyrian Disease-demons.—Charms.—Origin
of the Sabbath.
IV. THE MEDICINE OF THE HINDUS 96
The Aryans.—Hindu Philosophy.—The Vedas.—The Shastres
of Charaka and Susruta.—Code of Menu.—The Brahmans.—Medical
Practitioners.—Strabo on the Hindu Philosophers.—Charms.—Buddhism
and Medicine.—Jíwaka, Buddha’s Physician.—The
Pulse.—Knowledge of Anatomy and Surgery in Ancient Times.—Surgical
Instruments.—Decadence of Hindu Medical Science.—Goddesses
of Disease.—Origin of Hospitals in India.
V. MEDICINE IN CHINA, TARTARY, AND JAPAN 125
Origin of Chinese Culture.—Shamanism.—Disease-demons.—Taoism—Medicine
Gods.—Mediums.-Anatomy and Physiology of
the Chinese.—Surgery.—No Hospitals in China.—Chinese Medicines.—Filial
Piety.—Charms and Sacred Signs.—Medicine in
Thibet, Tartary, and Japan.
VI. THE MEDICINE OF THE PARSEES 141
Zoroaster and the _Zend-Avesta_.—The Heavenly Gift of the Healing
Plants.—Ormuzd and Ahriman.—Practice of the Healing Art
and its Fees.
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