Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Sketch of Medicine and Pharmacy
Antiquity means ancient or obsolete, and when it is applied to physicians it refers to those who practiced in a misty, distant age. The term usually refers back to the doctors of Egypt, or even Babylon, or early Asiatic coun tries. But it is a wrong assumption to look upon the physicians of those countries as obsolete.
The history of medicine may be divided into three periods or ages, to be denominated respectively.
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