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•and effea. The difpofition, which, in one age, 

 made Efculapius a god, in another, made Dr. 

 Bartolo a necromancer; among the Egyptians 

 the offices of priell and phyfician were originally 

 joined ; among the Jews, the prieft cured the 

 'leprous ; among the Greeks, fpaimodic difeafes, 

 and particularly epilepfy, were imputed to the 

 anger of the gods, and managed by diviners. 

 The firft part of Hippocrates's Treatife De 

 Morbo Sacro is written againft this fuperftition, 

 and contains a curious account of the diagnoiis 

 formed by the medical diviners. Siquidem nam- 

 que (a:gri) capram imitentttr, ^ balatiim edant^ dex^ 

 tramque in partem convellantur, deoriun rmtrem in 

 caufa ep affenint. Si vera acutiorem ^ vehementiorent 

 vocem edat ager, equo fmile ejfe dicunt, -^ ad Nep- 

 tunum caujam refermt. ^od ft fiercoris aliquid emit- 

 tat (quod nonnidlis morbo prejfis contingit) Hecates 

 EnodU appellatio adhibetur. Sin autem tenuius i^ 

 cribritiJ dejiciaty velut aves, Apollo Nomius. Si vera 

 fpumam ex Ore demittat, ^ pedibus calcitret, Mars 

 author eft. He adds that befides the employment 

 of ceremonies, they forbad their patients to wear 

 a black veftment, becaufe black denoted death, 

 or to Qeep on a goat-fkin, or to place either hand, 

 or foot, upon the other. According to thefe 

 rules, fays he, a Libyan would never be cured 

 of this diftemper, for in Libya goat-fkins are 

 univerfally worn and flept in. 



P 4 Galen 



