He shall hear the voice of Hea.
Davkina shall protect him;
And Marduk, eldest son of Heaven, shall find him a happy habitation.”
See Records of the Past, vol. iii, p. 142. She was invoked by women in labor.
[434] This figure is copied from one given by W. R. Cooper in his essay on “Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt.” See Transactions of the Victoria Institute, vol. vi, p. 321. London, 1873.
[435] The Art of Preserving Health. First published in 1744. One of the very few great medical poems.
[436] Tobias, viii, 10.
[437] American Hero-Myths, p. 19. 1882.
[438] This arrangement of the serpent is seen in an Egyptian priestess, a picture of which is given in Cooper’s essay, already referred to.
[439] It has been published, I think, in pamphlet form, but the copy I have was issued in 1882 in connection with the March and April numbers of a monthly published in the interest of Jefferson Medical College and her alumni, The College and Clinical Record. There are a dozen octavo pages of it.