Osteopathy : the science of healing by adjustment / Percy H. Woodall.

  • Woodall, Percy H. (Percy Hogan), 1874-
Date:
[1915?]
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Credit: Osteopathy : the science of healing by adjustment / Percy H. Woodall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Os feo p ath y 4. tive Se 2 erm 1 try of their usage to the Hgyptian prognos- tics. Free use was made of hair dyes, hair restorers, cosmetics, and even opiated sooth- ing syrups. Five thousand years before Christ dentists filled teeth with gold and surgeons performed difficult operations, with instruments very similar to those in present-day usage. They possessed some knowledge of the circulation of the blood; specialists treated all the different organs and diseases; physicians wrote prescriptions after the manner of the present century. Nor were they exempt from numerous pre- tenders and empirics, the antecedents of our modern quacks. It was from the Eeyptians that Moses doubtless received his marvelous knowledge of hygiene and sanitation, the practice of which entitled him to rank as one of the greatest physicians of history. But most human good has an evangelical, or at least mercantile, desire for self-propa- gation, and medicine soon made its way from Keypt into Greece. Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine, is attributed to the thirteenth century before Christ. His two sons, Machaon and Podilarius, were said. by Homer to have been present at the seige of Troy, and Podilarius is said to have been the first physician to practice bleeding. Hygeia, the beautiful daughter of Aesculapius, is the first woman physician recorded among the Greeks. While at this time there were many