The prescription, therapeutically, pharmaceutically, grammatically and historically considered . on which I attempt to cannot have been due to accident; it is always more in accord-ance with our methods of thought to accept a fairly good explana-tion, rather than to believe in accident. No other explanation forthe peculiar facts I have shown has ever been proposed, for Iconsider as altogether too puerile the attempt to explain Jty as beingRp. The latter form is seldom used, is contrary to usualmethods of abbreviating, and is so modern that it is at once appar-ent that it is derived fro
The prescription, therapeutically, pharmaceutically, grammatically and historically considered . on which I attempt to cannot have been due to accident; it is always more in accord-ance with our methods of thought to accept a fairly good explana-tion, rather than to believe in accident. No other explanation forthe peculiar facts I have shown has ever been proposed, for Iconsider as altogether too puerile the attempt to explain Jty as beingRp. The latter form is seldom used, is contrary to usualmethods of abbreviating, and is so modern that it is at once appar-ent that it is derived from Jfy , and not vice versa. To conclude, the explanations here given to account for the littlefinal cross-line in fy are fully as convincing as those given for hun-dreds of our customs, habits or beliefs which are traced back toformer superstitions, beliefs, folk-lore, customs or habits, which aregenerally accepted as satisfactory, and I leave this subject to thejudgment of my readers, whether there is or is not at least somefoundation and room for the Jupiter theory. O. A. W. St. Louis, In the early centuries of the christian era, amulets or charms againstwitchcraft, diseases and misfortune were much in vogue. I, II and IIIrepresent Abraxas medals, so called because the word Abraxaswas a powerful word-charm (see page 187). The letters a, &, r, a, x,a,s}in Greek, express the numeral 365. An Abraxas medal was any gemor talisman inscribed with mystical words or figures. The Romansused similar charms; and IV represents a priapic amulet (bearing theimage of Priapus), used by maidens and matrons to prevent sterility*These priapic charms were often realistic figures of the phallus. INDEX Abbreviations of Latin words, 109Abstracts, , , 17. Ad in prescriptions, 134, of physician on prescrip-tion, , 75, 85. comparison of, 87. declension of, 86. list of, 90-102. numeral, , , 76, , influence of, on action of me
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