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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, No.17-18
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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cure of maladies less prominent.* Of tile l>al>yloniaiis, whose ac(piainta!ice he culti\ated, he writes: Theyhave no professors of medicine. They ex;)ose their sick in some pul)lic sqiiare,with the hope of getting advice from someone who had been at one Time alllictedwith the same illness. No one passes the diseased person in silence, or withoutiucpiiry into the sympbmis of his complaint.t Mo.ses, the friend of (iod, whohad been instructed in all the learning of the Kgy;)tians, probably was acquaintedwith the practice and secrets of their medicine. Fnmi his instructions to his people,the Israelites, concerning various diseases, the lepro.sy, animals, clean and unclean,infirmities of women, etc.. many exegitists and commentators conclude he studiedEgyptian medicine and therapeutics. Tt docs not appear that ))hysicians werecommon among the TTcbrcws in early times, particularly for internal diseases. ♦Herodotus, Euterpe, chap. 84.vClio, Chap. 197. (-^1 ;(G AKCHJilOLOGICAL EEPORT.
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The Medicine Mans Outfit. AKcii.iioLocK AL i;i;iMn;r. 3? l)iit for wounds, fraeturos, l)niises and cxlornal injuries there were many surj-eons\\li(. understood the settin-;- of fractured limhs, the dressinj;- and hinding of wounds,jind the ;i;.plication of hcnlin.i;- salves. When doh \\ii\vre)»u(e of the science of medicine, with ihe pcr>ua.-ion that diseases were the effectsof (iods an^cr, or ircrr canned l)y evil spiril.s, was tiic reason tliat, in extraordinarymahidies. the sulfiivrs consulted soothsayers, diviners, magieians, enchanters, false^ods OI (lemons. When Ochozias, Kiiif,^ of Israel, was seriously injured hy a fall,he sent nicssen<i-ers to consult the false-udd. r,aal-/ehnl). at Akron, as to his cliancesof rec()\ery.* deremiali. the pioplict (\III, ^). denounced llie enchantments practised l)ysome of the chosen peoi)le for the hites of serpents and v

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