Project Gutenberg #1566
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
William Osler
1921Osler's lectures tracing medicine from antiquity to modern scientific practice, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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to dreams, and to hold this view is reasonable also for those who are not practitioners but speculative philosophers,"(20) but it is asking too much to think that the Deity would trouble to send dreams to very simple people and to animals, if they were designed in any way to reveal the future.
In its struggle with Christianity, Paganism made its last stand in the temples of Asklepios. The miraculous healing of the saints superseded the cures of the heathen god, and it was wise to adopt the useful practice of his temple.
(18) Mary Hamilton: Incubation, or the Cure of Disease in Pagan Temples and Christian Churches, London, 1906. (19) Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, translation of third edition by A. A. Brill, 1913. (20) Aristotle: Parva Naturalia, De divinatione per somnium, Ch. I, Oxford ed., Vol. III, 463 a.