out of the devil which was dumb, the healing of the person whom
"the devil ofttimes casteth into the fire"--of which case one of
the greatest modern physicians remarks that never was there a truer
description of epilepsy--and various other episodes, show this same
inevitable mode of thought as a refracting medium through which the
teachings and doings of the Great Physician were revealed to future
generations.

In Greece, though this idea of an occult evil agency in producing bodily
ills appeared at an early period, there also came the first beginnings,
so far as we know, of a really scientific theory of medicine. Five
hundred years before Christ, in the bloom period of thought--the
period of Aeschylus, Phidias, Pericles, Socrates, and Plato--appeared
Hippocrates, one of the greatest names in history. Quietly but
thoroughly he broke away from the old tradition, developed scientific
thought, and laid the foundations of medical science upon experience,
observation, and reason so deeply and broadly that his teaching remains
to this hour among the most precious possessions of our race.

His thought was passed on to the School of Alexandria, and there medical
science was developed yet further, especially by such men as Herophilus
and Erasistratus. Under their lead studies in human anatomy began by
dissection; the old prejudice which had weighed so long upon science,
preventing that method of anatomical investigation without which there
can be no real results, was cast aside apparently forever.(289)

(289) For extended statements regarding medicine in Egypt, Judea, and
Eastern nations generally, see Sprengel, Histoire de la Medecine, and
Haeser; and for more succinct accounts, Baas, Geschichte der Medicin,
pp. 15-29; also Isensee; also Fredault, Histoire de la Medecine, chap.
i. For the effort in Egyptian medicine to deal with demons and witches,
see Heinrich Brugsch, Die Aegyptologie, Leipsic, 1891, p. 77; and for
references to the Papyrus Ebers, etc., pp. 155, 407, and following. For
fear of dissection and prejudices against it in Egypt, like those in
mediaeval Europe, see Maspero and Sayce, Dawn of Civilization, p. 216.
For the derivation of priestly medicine in Egypt, see Baas, pp. 16, 22.
For the fame of Egyptian medicine at Rome, see Sharpe, History of Egypt,
vol. ii, pp. 151, 184. For Assyria, see especially George Smith in
Delitzsch's German translation, p. 34, and F. Delitzsch's appendix, p.
27. On the chea