13/55 On the preferences of spells in healing over medicine and surgery, see Zend-Avesta, vol.i, pp. For healing by magic in ancient Greece, see, e.g., the cure of Ulysses in the Odyssey, "They stopped the black blood by a spell" (Odyssey, xxix, 457). For medicine in Egypt as partly priestly and partly in the hands of physicians, see Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol.ii, p. |