The Influences Which Are Elevating Medicine to the Position of a Science

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Excerpt from The Influences Which Are Elevating Medicine to the Position of a Science: An Anniversary Discourse Delivered Before the New York Academy of Medicine, November 15, 1877For over four hundred years the Jews lived in Egypt in a state Of bondage. When a leader, who proved equal to the task Of freeing, leading, and elevating them, appeared, they went forth as a nation well instructed in all the learning Of their former masters. The Egyptians were the medical instructors Of the Jews, as they were likewise of the Greeks.The seed Of knowledge thus planted produced among the first of these nations the sanitary laws which we read and ad mire to - day, and which must, in the early times in which they were framed, have accomplished a vast deal for the benefit Of those for whom they were designed.TO the latter we owe the birth Of that school of medicine, which, founded by the illustrious sage Of cos, four centuries before the birth of Christ, comes down to us as that to which we give our adherence to - day. Then came the Romans, adding to what the Greeks had taught them, to be succeeded by the Arabs, whose teachings come down to our own time in the writ ings of Rhazes, Avicenna, Haly-abbas, and Albucasis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.