The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

by Edward Berdoe

[323] Rig-Veda, x. 97, 17.

[324] Vendîdâd, Fargard xx. 7.

[325] Sacred Books of the East, vol. iv. p. 83.

[326] Herod., i. 138.

[327] Zend-Avesta. Translated by J. Darmesteter in Sacred Books of the East, vol. iv. p. 187. This throws a curious light on a custom which has been observed in operation all over the world, of taking care not to throw about hair or nail-cuttings, lest the devil should get hold of them.

[328] Zend-Avesta, Introduction, v. xciii. § 13.

[329] Our word Peony derives its Latin name (Pæonia) from the name of Apollo the Healer. He cured the gods of their diseases, and healed their wounds by means of this root.

[330] vii. 23.

[331] Wheelwright’s translation of Pindar. Third Pythian Ode, 80-95.

[332] Sacred Books of the East, vol. iv. p. 219 note.