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Medica sacra; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings / [Thomas Shapter].

  • Shapter, Thomas
Date:
1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medica sacra; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings / [Thomas Shapter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *«« maintained at the expense of the public. “These joined astrology to physic; by ‘* which they founded their pretended fore- ‘* sight in respect to impending maladies: ‘‘and in consequence of it, they were “* continually prescribing antidotes and pre- ** ventatives to the people.” From what has been stated above, and from the fact that Luke the Evangelist was a ‘* beloved physician,” one may conclude that, independently of the priests, who cer- tainly often combined the office of physician to that of their more sacred functions, there was a distinct class educated for such pro- fession, and who derived a reverence from practising it, especially when we are told, as before quoted, that King Asa sought not the Lord, but physicians; for it is evident from this, if the profession of physic had been confined to the priesthood, the apply- ing to the physicians would, by implication,