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... diseases were strictly prescribed in the ancient sacred books , and any physician who dared in any degree to depart from them in practice was liable to be arraigned on a capital charge . The science of the early world would , therefore ...
... diseases were strictly prescribed in the ancient sacred books , and any physician who dared in any degree to depart from them in practice was liable to be arraigned on a capital charge . The science of the early world would , therefore ...
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... diseases , and not to many ; and therefore the country was full of physicians . Some were for the eye , some for the head , others for the teeth , others for the lower part of the body , and others for hidden complaints . All these ...
... diseases , and not to many ; and therefore the country was full of physicians . Some were for the eye , some for the head , others for the teeth , others for the lower part of the body , and others for hidden complaints . All these ...
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... disease through alternating action , and in the great unites the stars into one general causation of life and death . We find , too , traces of the use of the magnet amongst the ancient Egyptians . Pliny relates that the temple of ...
... disease through alternating action , and in the great unites the stars into one general causation of life and death . We find , too , traces of the use of the magnet amongst the ancient Egyptians . Pliny relates that the temple of ...
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... disease and trouble into the fulness of heavenly light . When Plutarch represents Bacchus and Apollo as pro- phetic divinities , we find the account very strikingly descrip- tive of the phenomena of magnetic somnambulism , in which the ...
... disease and trouble into the fulness of heavenly light . When Plutarch represents Bacchus and Apollo as pro- phetic divinities , we find the account very strikingly descrip- tive of the phenomena of magnetic somnambulism , in which the ...
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... diseases , plagues , etc. , were attributed , if not to the devil , at least to the influence of demoniac spirits ; and the devil himself came pre - eminently into the ascendancy again through the first ascetics and anchorites ; and his ...
... diseases , plagues , etc. , were attributed , if not to the devil , at least to the influence of demoniac spirits ; and the devil himself came pre - eminently into the ascendancy again through the first ascetics and anchorites ; and his ...
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