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Co!)!i of memorial tablet. — It was the custom, in the early Greek period, to 

 connneinorate notalile cures Ity a record of the cases engraved upon tablets 

 of metal or marble. The tablet represented in Figure 22 bears tlie record of 

 four cases, two of Idindness, one of hemorriiage from the lungs, and one of 

 pleurisy. It illustrates the fact that the medical practice In the Greek temples 

 was purely psycliic, or mind medicine, a method as old as history. Translated 

 into English the- records on the memorial tablet I'ead as follows: 



(1) Lately a certain Gains, who was blind, learned from the oracle that 

 he should approach the altar, offering prayers, then cross the temple from 

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it upon his eyes. He recovered his sight at once, in the presence and amid 

 the applause of the people. This evidence of the omnipotence of the god 

 was manifested during the reign of Antoninus (about 120 A. D. ). 



(2) A blind soldier named Valerius Aper. having consulted the oracle was 

 directed to mix the blood of a white cock with honey, and make of it an 

 ointment which he was to rub on the eyes for throe days. He recovered his 

 sight and went to thank the god before all the people. 



(3) A certain Julian was given over by all because of a spitting of blood. 

 The oracle directed him to go to the altar, thence take some pine nuts, mix 

 them with honey, and eat of them for three days. He was saved, and returned 

 to give thanks to this god. in the presence of all the people. 



