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7 proceeding to give details of its contents, one more peculiarity is worth mentioning. Though the pages are carefully numbered the figures 28 and 29 are omitted, while the text is continuous. Ebers conjectures that the writer either accidentally forgot his count, abstained from using these numbers for superstitious reasons, the discussion of which we cannot here enter upon.

As already remarked the work is divided into chapters or sections. We cannot give Ebers’ synopsis in full, but a fair insight into the character of the treatise may be obtained from the selected headings of sections, and extracts here following: