The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe

92. may it drive out the spell and I shall be free.

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The image of Hea placed in the doorway kept away the disease-demons. In the Babylonian and Assyrian rooms of the British Museum there is a collection of bowls inscribed with charms in Chaldee, Syriac, and Mandaitie. It is supposed that they were used by sick persons, who drank their physic from them, trusting that it would thereby be more efficacious. As they drank they recited the formulæ and names of the archangels, Michael, Raphael, Ariel, Shaltiel, Malkiel, etc., which were inscribed upon them. The catalogue says that the earliest of these bowls were made about B.C. 200. Many are from Tell-Ibrahim (Cutha). It may be mentioned in this connection that Catholics frequently make the sign of the cross over medicinal potions before taking them. The origin of the Sabbath as a day of cessation from all labour is evidently Accadian. In the following translation of an Assyrian tablet[223] we find the Sabbatarian principle in full force. “The seventh day, feast of Merodach and Zir: Panibu, a great feast, a day of rest. The prince of the people will eat neither the flesh of birds nor cooked fruits. He will not change his clothing. He will put on no white robe. He will bring no offering. The king will not ascend into his chariot. He will not perform his duties as royal law-giver. In a garrison city the commander will permit no proclamations to his soldiers. The art of the physician will not be practised.” This is another proof that the Jews derived many of their religious customs from the Assyrians and Accadians. The Assyrian Sabbath was evidently observed as strictly as under the Mosaic code. It is curious to note that the physician was not permitted to exercise his merciful calling on that day, and it throws light on the objection of the Jews to Christ that it was not lawful to heal on the Sabbath-day.

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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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