Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 266
l mode adopted by the Egyptians for preventingillness v.as attention to regimen and diet; being persuaded thatthe majority of diseases proceed from indigestion and excess ofeating; and they had frequent recourse to abstinence, emetics,slight doses of medicine, and other simple means of relieving… … WREATH OF OAK. {Life Saving.) 248 DOMESTIC LIFE. successive days, every month, they submitted to a regular courseof treatment; from the conviction that illness was wont to pro-ceed from some irregularity in diet; and if preventives wereineffectual they had recourse to suitable remedies, adopting…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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