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 *lessly. It advises that patients should be permitted to eat anything they specially crave after. Among its aphorisms are salt after meals, water after wine, onions for worms, peppered wine for stomach disorders, injection of turpentine for stone in the bladder. People may eat more before 40, drink more after 40. Magic is plentifully supplied for the treatment of disease. To cure ague, for instance, you must wait by a cross-road until you see an ant carrying a load. Then you must pick up the ant and its load, place them in a brass tube which you must seal up, saying as you do this, "Oh ant, my load be upon thee, and thy load be upon me."

Towards the time of Christ the sect of the Essenes, ascetic in their habits and communistic in their principles, cultivated, according to Josephus, the art of medicine, "collecting roots and minerals" for this purpose. Their designation may have been derived from this occupation.

is, or was, familiar to readers of the Old Testament, but in the revised translation he has partially disappeared. The earliest allusion to him occurs in Exodus xxx., 25, where the holy anointing oil is prescribed to be made "after the art of the apothecary"; and in the same chapter, v. 29, incense is similarly ordered to be made into a confection "after the art of the apothecary, tempered together." The Revised Version gives in both cases "the art of the perfumer," and instead of the incense being "tempered together" (c. xxx, v, 35) the instruction is now rendered "seasoned with salt." A further mention of the art of