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Section 3 ~ Medicine.  Chapter 6 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.   See SUBTITLE Text content below.

 1	    It is recorded that the profession of medicine originated
  	in idolatry with pagan priests, who besought the gods to
 3	heal the sick and designated Apollo as "the god	                   Mythology
  	of medicine." He was supposed to have dic-	                           and materia
  	tated the first prescription, according to the	                           medica 
 6	"History of Four Thousand Years of Medicine." It is
  	here noticeable that Apollo was also regarded as the sender
  	of disease, "the god of pestilence." Hippocrates turned
 9	from image-gods to vegetable and mineral drugs for heal-
  	ing. This was deemed progress in medicine; but
  	what we need is the truth which heals both mind and
12	body. The future history of material medicine may
  	correspond with that of its material god, Apollo, who was
  	banished from heaven and endured great sufferings
15	upon earth.