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Quotes from Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine — David Macbeth Moir

1798–1851 Scotland

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Disease is almost as old as man himself; and so must have been medicine.

Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine (1831)

Medicine appears to have been very early seized upon by the priests, as an instrument of great power; and thus mixed up and blended with religious superstitions, it was practised by a sect of the Egyptian priesthood, under the denomination of Pastopheri.

Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine (1831)

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