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 (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 260
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.) 247 248 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,…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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