. Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene . been deeply versedin the practice of medicine, and, ac-cordingly, was compared with ^scu-lapius.^ ChONSU, or CnONSU-NEFER-HOTEP,* the son of Amun and Mut, the thirdof the great Theban triad, was re-garded as a healing divinity. SnysTiele: He was resorted to for thecure of all diseases, or for the exor-cism of all the evil spirits who inflictthem.^ He resembled Thoth some-what. From the third century before our era forwardSerapis was highly esteemed for his healing power.«He was in part a Grecian conc
. Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene . been deeply versedin the practice of medicine, and, ac-cordingly, was compared with ^scu-lapius.^ ChONSU, or CnONSU-NEFER-HOTEP,* the son of Amun and Mut, the thirdof the great Theban triad, was re-garded as a healing divinity. SnysTiele: He was resorted to for thecure of all diseases, or for the exor-cism of all the evil spirits who inflictthem.^ He resembled Thoth some-what. From the third century before our era forwardSerapis was highly esteemed for his healing power.«He was in part a Grecian conception, being first promi- » Book of the Dead, ch. Ixxviii. Translation by Birch, in vol. v ofBunsens Egypts Place, etc. The hawk is the usual symbol of Horus, justas the ibis is of Thoth. 3 Tiele pronounces Horus to be the God of Light, the Token ofLife. History of the Egyptian ReUgion, p. 54. » Manual of Mythology, p. 346. London, 1873. * Often spoken of as the Hercules of the Egyptians. « History of the Egyptian Religion, p. 154. 6 See Diodorus Siculus, i, 25 ; and Tacitus, xiv, Fig. 12.—Thoth. 102 Medical Symbolism. nent in Pontus, and his worship became popular inmany sections of Greece and Rome; but Alexandriawas his chief seat, and his serapeum there was of greatmagnificence and He was represented invarious ways, often as a man encirled by a serpent. The special personage corresponding to ^scuhipius,among the Egyptians, would seem to have been Imhotep,EiMOPTH, Imothph, Eimothph, or Emeph, a god whoseshrine was first discovered by Salt,^ the Egyptologist,at Philifi. A Greek inscription on the shrine reads :w^sculapius, who is Imuthes, son of Yulcan. Inaccordance with the inscription. Sir Erasmus Wilsonsays: Imhotep, the Imuthes of the Greeks, corre-sponded with their ^sculapius.^ Ebers, probably thebest of authorities on the subject, says of Imhotep:* He was the son of Ptah, and named Asklepios by theGreeks. Memphis* was the chief city of his
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