art entirely opposed to that principle. In this state of affairs the
Jewish physician, led by the teachings of his religion, alone presented
the study of medicine in a scientific manner, and its practice and its
result taught the Moslems that medical science placed it within the
power of man to keep himself out of the grave, when either assailed by
disease or laid low by the wounds of war. The Arabs were not slow to
avail themselves of this discovery; and to the learning and skill of the
Jewish physician, guided by the light of an intelligent Deity and a
liberal religion, does medicine owe the existence of those able and
learned Arabian physicians that flourished during the eleventh and
twelfth centuries.

There has been more or less of fault-finding in regard to certain rules
and ordinances being sacramental, which, from the nature of things,
should have been merely advisory or suggestive, as they pertained
more to the hygienic welfare of the people than to the spiritual. Thus
to reason, is neither philosophical nor in concert with our knowledge
of the structure of man, and of the intimate relations that exist
between mind and body, or of good health and good morals. The writer
has seen violent catharsis produced by bread pills, after podophyllin,
castor-oil, and phosphate of soda in the most generousdoses--administered
as one would drop a letter in a mail-box--had completely failed; it is
all in the manner and way we give a medicine or treat a disease. Certain
narcotic and irritant poisons or powerful sedative agents have a
physical action uninfluenced by the mind, but an intelligent physician
is hardly supposed to drive at the small tack of disease with such
powerful sledge-hammers. Charcot, recognizing the power of and availing
himself of such a remedial agent as the pilgrimages to the Notre Dame de
Lourdes, is an evidence of the intelligent and enlightened practitioner,
who has learned, what the Bible taught, long, long ago, that human
nature must be taken as it is found, and that, like the homely saying of
Mohammed, as the mountain would not come to him, he must go to the
mountain. Moses and all the Scriptural writers were well aware of this
state of affairs, and their manner of using their knowledge was adapted
and timed to the general intellectual development of the times.

There is one point in connection with the above that should not escape
our attention, this being that, while the Hebraic creed and the peop