But the pure and luminous intelligence in us--that has another seat," and the physician struck his broad but low forehead with his hand.

"I have observed heads by the hundred down at the place of execution, and I have also removed the top of the skulls of living animals.

But now let me write, before we are disturbed." [Human brains are prescribed for a malady of the eyes in the Ebers papyrus.

Herophilus, one of the first scholars of the Alexandrine Museum, studied not only the bodies of executed criminals, but made his experiments also on living malefactors.

He maintained that the four cavities of the human brain are the seat of the soul.] The physician took the reed, moistened it with black color prepared from burnt papyrus, and in elegant hieratic characters [At the time of our narrative the Egyptians had two kinds of writing-the hieroglyphic, which was generally used for monumental inscriptions, and in which the letters consisted of conventional representations of various objects, mathematical and arbitrary symbols, and the hieratic, used for writing on papyrus, and in which, with the view of saving time, the written pictures underwent so many alterations and abbreviations that the originals could hardly be recognized.