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Excerpt from The Complete Herbalist, or the People Their Own Physicians by the Use of Nature''s Remedies: Showing the Great Curative Properties of All Herbs, Gums, Balsams, Barks, Flowers and Roots; How They Should Be Prepared; When and Under What Influences Selected; At What Times Gathered; And for What Diseases Administered
The use of medicine is no doubt coincident with the History of the Human Race; but writers generally agree that medicine first became a profession among the Egyptians. The priests of the earlier nations were the practitioners of the Healing Art, but it does not seem that women were excluded from the right of administering medicine for the purpose of healing the sick, since mention is made of a certain Queen Isrs, who became greatly celebrated among them, and was worshipped as a goddess or health. Although the practitioners among the Egyptians, Assyrians and Jews, were in the habit of employing incantations, which, of course, produced their good and bad im pressions through the medium of the imagination, yet their efii (iency in curing diseases was mainly due to their knowledge of the medical virtues of many of the vegetable products of Nature. They seemed to look up as high as the stars to know the reason of the operation of the Herbs in the various affections of the human race.
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The use of medicine is no doubt coincident with the History of the Human Race; but writers generally agree that medicine first became a profession among the Egyptians. The priests of the earlier nations were the practitioners of the Healing Art, but it does not seem that women were excluded from the right of administering medicine for the purpose of healing the sick, since mention is made of a certain Queen Isrs, who became greatly celebrated among them, and was worshipped as a goddess or health. Although the practitioners among the Egyptians, Assyrians and Jews, were in the habit of employing incantations, which, of course, produced their good and bad im pressions through the medium of the imagination, yet their efii (iency in curing diseases was mainly due to their knowledge of the medical virtues of many of the vegetable products of Nature. They seemed to look up as high as the stars to know the reason of the operation of the Herbs in the various affections of the human race.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Oliver Phelps Brown
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331442649
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Page Count - 454
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