. The Pharmaceutical era. of wizards and wolfmen, sorcerers and seers, who wereat once physicians, surgeons, prophets and historians,who transmittedthe traditions oftheir race fromgeneration to gen-eration. Of the Scyth-ians, who in-habited the coun-try at the pe-riod of which Iam s p e a k i n g,very little isknown. At the •«. im.,,,,,, famous museum in St. Petersburg, The Hermitage,there is a valuable collection of relics of the Scythiandays. One of the most remark-:\\<\v examples of the ar-tistic talent displayed atthat date is a vase of elec-trum. most probably oftJreek manufact
. The Pharmaceutical era. of wizards and wolfmen, sorcerers and seers, who wereat once physicians, surgeons, prophets and historians,who transmittedthe traditions oftheir race fromgeneration to gen-eration. Of the Scyth-ians, who in-habited the coun-try at the pe-riod of which Iam s p e a k i n g,very little isknown. At the •«. im.,,,,,, famous museum in St. Petersburg, The Hermitage,there is a valuable collection of relics of the Scythiandays. One of the most remark-:\\<\v examples of the ar-tistic talent displayed atthat date is a vase of elec-trum. most probably oftJreek manufacture, or re-pousse work. It depictsa Scythian battlefield; onone side we see a chieftainconsulting a wolfmau, an-other of these surgeonsexamining a mans jawfor loose teeth or brokenbones, and a third ban-daging a limb, much as itis done at the presenttime. This vase is sup-posed to date from 400 to350 B. C. Very little is known ofmedicine between thistime and some yearslater, when Rurik. theSwedish Viking, and his. Fig. 28.—Acine MicroscopeLamp. two brothers settled in Novogorod in 8()2. Aboutthis time Christianity was introduced into Russia fromByzantium, and with Christianity came the first knowl-edge of the arts and of medicine. The famous monas-tery of Kieff was the earliest seat of learning, and itsmonks soon became noted for their successful treatmentof disease. The wizards and wolfmen disappeared, and
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