. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Jewish Diysician.—Modern Oriental.] CONTEMPORARY KINGS. Kings of Jud.\h. Rehoboam 990 Abijali 973 Asa 970 Died 929 Kings of Israel. Jeroboam 990 Baaslia 966 Elah 943 Ziinri and Omri 942 Aliab 931 Died 909 .See 2 Chron. xvi. 14, xxi. 19; Jer. xxxiv. 5 ; .\mos, \i. 10. Chap. V.] NOTR ON MEDICINE. 561 NOTK ON [ligyptian Physicians.] () Medicine, p. 560.—The following ob-servations, derived chiefly from the works ofLightfoot, Professor Jahii, and Sir J. G. Wilkin-son, with some ad
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Jewish Diysician.—Modern Oriental.] CONTEMPORARY KINGS. Kings of Jud.\h. Rehoboam 990 Abijali 973 Asa 970 Died 929 Kings of Israel. Jeroboam 990 Baaslia 966 Elah 943 Ziinri and Omri 942 Aliab 931 Died 909 .See 2 Chron. xvi. 14, xxi. 19; Jer. xxxiv. 5 ; .\mos, \i. 10. Chap. V.] NOTR ON MEDICINE. 561 NOTK ON [ligyptian Physicians.] () Medicine, p. 560.—The following ob-servations, derived chiefly from the works ofLightfoot, Professor Jahii, and Sir J. G. Wilkin-son, with some additional matter from the au-thorities cited at the end, comprise all the in-formation we possess concerning the state ofmedical science among the Hebrews and theirneighbours. At Babylon, those attacked with a diseasewere left in the streets, for the purpose oflearning from such as might pass them, whatpractices or what medicines they had found ofutility when afflicted in a similar was perhaps done also in other countries:the Egyptians carried their sick into thetemples of Serapis ;^ the Greeks caiuiedtlieirs into those of Esculapius. In both thesetemples the means by which various cures hadbeen effected were preserved in the aid of these recorded remedies, theart of healing assumed in the course of timethe aspect of a science. It assumed such formfirst in Egypt, and at a much more recentp
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