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 from an angel named Amnael, one of the sons of God of whom we read in the book of Genesis. The science thus imparted to her was the price she exacted from him for the surrender of herself to him. The son of Isis, Horus, was identified by the Greeks with their Apollo, and to him also the discovery of medicine is attributed.

From the Collection of Medals and other Antiquities of Casalius (17th century).

In Leclerc's History of Medicine.

The legend which associated "the sons of God" with the daughters of men before the Flood, and the suggestion that they imparted a knowledge of medicine to the inhabitants of the earth, is traceable in the traditions of the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Persians, as well as in Jewish literature. In the 6th chapter of Genesis it is said that "they saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose." From these unions came the race of giants, and the wickedness of man so