they heal animals they will also heal men," 

 is his invincible argument. Others may 

 have Dipped deep into Indian history and 

 folk-lore and learned that many of the herbs 

 used by the American tribes, and especially 

 the cures for rheumatism, dysentery, fever, 

 and snake bites, were learned direct from 

 the animals, by noting the rheumatic old 

 bear grub for fern roots or bathe in the hot 

 mud of a sulphur spring, and by watching 

 with eager eyes what plants the wild crea- 

 tures ate when bitten by rattlers or wasted 

 by the fever. Still others have been fasci- 

 nated with the first crude medical knowledge 

 of the Greeks, which came to them from 

 the East undoubtedly, and have read that the 

 guarded mysteries of the Asclepiades, the 

 healing cult that followed ^Esculapius, had 

 among them many simple remedies that had 

 first proved their efficacy among animals in 

 a natural state; and that Hippocrates, the 

 greatest physician of antiquity, whose fame 

 under the name of Bokrat the Wise went 

 down through Arabia and into the farthest 

 deserts, owes many of his medical aphorisms 



