Medica sacra ; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings.

  • Shapter, Thomas.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Medica sacra ; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    skilled in all branches of physic, and the latter left behind him treatises upon the structure of the human body.Q Syncellus speaks of these medical books of Athoth: “ But what are styled books “ and treatises, are supposed to have been “ originally hieroglyphical writings upon “ obelisks, or else in the syringes or sacred “ fountains, which were formed in rocks of “ Upper Egypt. That this learning was “ originally consigned to the cryptae, or “ sacred camps of Egypt, and to obelisks, “ is mentioned by Manetho of Sebennys, “ which shews its great antiquity.” The repute, in consequence of the skill of the Egyptian physicians, was very great, and spread their fame into distant countries, (1) \mpiKrjv re eg'ijcncrjffev, Kai fii/UXas avcno/UKas avve^payjrev,—Euseb. C/iron. p. 14. For fuller notes upon the above, I must refer the reader to Bryant’s own work.