CHAPTER I.

THE DAWN OF THE ART OF HEALING.

The foundation of the art of healing—The most ancient record of medicine and pharmacy—The _Ebers Papyrus_—Origin of the term pharmacist—Drugs used in ancient Egypt—Early Jewish medicines—The antiquity of medicine and alchemy in China—The Chinese and the Philosopher’s Stone—Ancient Chinese _materia medica_—The medical art in ancient Greece—The Grecian temples of medicine—Methods of treatment—The oath of Hippocrates _pages_ 1-13