Annals of medical history . d of the paper therecan be little doubt that it is of the eight-eenth century. It was probably written inthe monastery where it now lies. The characteristic of Byzantine science,as of other aspects of Byzantine civilization,has been its extraordinarily uniform char- 1 S. P. Lambros: Catalogue of the Greek Manu-scripts on Mount Athos, vol. I, p. 58, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1895. 338 Annals of Medical History acter. From the period when independentGreek thought was finally submerged andGreek Orthodox Christianity had beenirrevocably set adrift from the WesternChurc
Annals of medical history . d of the paper therecan be little doubt that it is of the eight-eenth century. It was probably written inthe monastery where it now lies. The characteristic of Byzantine science,as of other aspects of Byzantine civilization,has been its extraordinarily uniform char- 1 S. P. Lambros: Catalogue of the Greek Manu-scripts on Mount Athos, vol. I, p. 58, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1895. 338 Annals of Medical History acter. From the period when independentGreek thought was finally submerged andGreek Orthodox Christianity had beenirrevocably set adrift from the WesternChurch, the Greek intellect became prac-tically stationary. There were, indeed, localresuscitations of learning, there^were times the past. Our MS. represents one of thesedisordered and incoherent dreams of an-tiquity in the last troubled sleep of Hellasbefore she awoke to reality and to reasonat the voice of Adamantios Koraes. Therecould be no more naive and childish pres-entation of the age-old belief in the potency ? - -?. > *fifr~ .?? :-? >?>-• .??:•?>? y.*i~-i.!;y*:^/
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