The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe

3. Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of

the earth. For our natural disposition is, as it were, the soil; the tenets of our teacher are, as it were, the seed; instruction in youth is like the planting of the seed in the ground at the proper season; the place where the instruction is communicated is like the food imparted to vegetables by the atmosphere; diligent study is like the cultivation of the fields; and it is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
BOOK I. Ch.2
BOOK II. Ch.3
BOOK III. Ch.4
BOOK IV. Ch.5
BOOK V. Ch.6
BOOK VI. Ch.7
BOOK I. Ch.8
CHAPTER I. Ch.9
CHAPTER II. Ch.10
CHAPTER III. Ch.11
CHAPTER IV. Ch.12
CHAPTER V. Ch.13
CHAPTER VI. Ch.14
CHAPTER VII. Ch.15
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.16
BOOK II. Ch.17
CHAPTER I. Ch.18
CHAPTER II. Ch.19
5. _Disease of the liver_. 6. _Hypochondria_. 7. _Hysteria_. 8. Ch.20
12. _Fevers_ in general (Matt. viii. 14, etc.). 13. _Pestilence_ Ch.21
23. _Cancer_ (2 Tim. ii. 17). 24. _Worms_; may have been phthiriasis Ch.22
28. _Lethargy_ (Gen. ii. 21; 1 Sam. xxvi. 12). 29. _Paralysis_, palsy Ch.23
CHAPTER III. Ch.24
29. For the spell the invocation of heaven may he repeat the invocation Ch.25
38. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, Ch.26
48. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, Ch.27
58. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, Ch.28
68. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, Ch.29
78. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, Ch.30
88. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, Ch.31
92. may it drive out the spell and I shall be free. Ch.32
CHAPTER IV. Ch.33
6. The Vedānta, by Bādarāyana or Vyāsa. Ch.34
CHAPTER V. Ch.35
CHAPTER VI. Ch.36
BOOK III. Ch.37
CHAPTER I. Ch.38
CHAPTER II. Ch.39
1. Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but owing to the Ch.40
2. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought Ch.41
3. Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of Ch.42
4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and Ch.43
5. Those things which are sacred are to be imparted only to sacred Ch.44
CHAPTER III. Ch.45
CHAPTER IV. Ch.46
17. Celsus, _De Medicina Libri Octo_, of which the fifth treats of Ch.47
22. Marcellus Empiricus, _De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, ac Ch.48
CHAPTER V. Ch.49
CHAPTER VI. Ch.50
2. The _Magical_, with extraordinary figures, superstitious words, Ch.51
BOOK IV. Ch.52
CHAPTER I. Ch.53
900. The sources of the information he ascribes to Oxa, Dun, and Ch.54
2. He is to have his land free: his horse in attendance: and his linen Ch.55
3. His seat in the hall within the palace is at the base of the pillar Ch.56
5. His protection is, from the time the king shall command him to visit Ch.57
6. He is to administer medicine gratuitously to all within the palace, Ch.58
7. The mediciner is to have, when he shall apply a tent, twenty-four Ch.59
14. The mediciner is to take an indemnification from the kindred of the Ch.60
18. His worth is six score and six kine, to be augmented.” Ch.61
CHAPTER II. Ch.62
CHAPTER III. Ch.63
529. The religious houses of this order, of which Monte Cassino was the Ch.64
CHAPTER IV. Ch.65
CHAPTER V. Ch.66
CHAPTER VI. Ch.67
CHAPTER VII. Ch.68
1325. Though he had a penetrating faculty of observation, he was not Ch.69
CHAPTER VIII. Ch.70
CHAPTER IX. Ch.71
BOOK V. Ch.72
CHAPTER I. Ch.73
1518. The king was moved to this by the example of similar institutions Ch.74
CHAPTER II. Ch.75
CHAPTER III. Ch.76
CHAPTER IV. Ch.77
CHAPTER V. Ch.78
CHAPTER VI. Ch.79
CHAPTER VII. Ch.80
1774. The greatest teacher of surgery in Germany, A. G. Richter, gave Ch.81
1734. He was the author of several medical treatises, one of which Ch.82
BOOK VI. Ch.83
CHAPTER I. Ch.84
CHAPTER II. Ch.85
CHAPTER III. Ch.86
introduction of wholly new and startling ideas. Ch.87
1608. BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY, or CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, is the _ruskapoor_ Ch.88
337. Boniveh, _Tasmanians_, pp. 183, 195. Ch.89