. Annals of medical history. If our art hasnot advanced since then, both in theoryand practice, the sooner we leave ourpatients to the unalloyed benefits of thevis medicatrix naturae the better for those who seek to credit Shaksperewith any special medical knowledge seemto me to do so to the disparagement of our profession, which is not so poor a one thatit can be expounded by him who hasmerely powers of observation and felicityof are fundamental princi-ples (for instance, of anatomy and physi-ology) without which the practitioner walksa path beset with pitfalls, into
. Annals of medical history. If our art hasnot advanced since then, both in theoryand practice, the sooner we leave ourpatients to the unalloyed benefits of thevis medicatrix naturae the better for those who seek to credit Shaksperewith any special medical knowledge seemto me to do so to the disparagement of our profession, which is not so poor a one thatit can be expounded by him who hasmerely powers of observation and felicityof are fundamental princi-ples (for instance, of anatomy and physi-ology) without which the practitioner walksa path beset with pitfalls, into which he isin constant danger of being entrapped. Aknowledge of our profession cannot be ob-tained from books only: there must be clinicalexperience, with the voice of the livingteacher to guide the learner through theintricacies of the elemental training. Andof these necessities we know that Shaksperehas AN ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THEMALE URINARY AND GENITAL ORGANS By EDWARD PODOLSKY BROOKLYN, N. Y. THERE is in the Museum of theUniversity of Pennsylvania atablet which is of special interestto the medical profession becauseit reveals some curious medical ideas ofthe ancients hitherto unknown. It is butrecently that the text of this curioustablet has been translated. The reason ac-counting for this is the exceedingly smallscript which could not be read without verygreat difficulty. It is only recently throughthe great scholarship of Dr. H. F. Lutz ofthe University of Pennsylvania that thecuniforms have been deciphered. The tablet is of neo-Babylonian originand probably belongs to the time of 650-600 B, C. The text so far as it has resistedthe ravages of time enumerates eight dif-ferent cases of urinary and genital dis-orders for which there are sometimes de-scribed twenty-one treatments for a singledisease. There is first stated briefly thesymptoms of the disease from
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