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| title = The Oldest Medical Work in the World
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| notes = From the Scientific American, v. 33, No. 24, December 11, 1875, p. 376
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Fifteen hundred years}} before the birth of Christ, at a period when the Israelites were still in bondage in Egypt, Hermes, a king of that country, and surnamed “Trismegistus,” or thrice great, translated, from engraved tables of stone long before buried in the earth, certain sacred characters said to have been written thereon by the first Hermes, the Egyptian god Thoth or Thuti. The books thus produced were deposited in the temples; and the reputation of the king as a restorer of learning lived in history up to the time of the alchemists of the middle ages, who looked upon him as the “father of chemistry;” while bis name still exists in our word “hermetical,” commonly applied to a seal through which nothing, however subtle, can pass. Hermes’ writings, according to Clemens Alexandrinus, who described them in chronicles written 200 years after Christ, consisted of forty-two books, all of which were held by the Egyptians in the highest veneration. They treated of rules by which the king was to govern, of astronomy, cosmogony, and geography, of {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|3-10}}
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spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.19_1875-07-15.pdf|page=12|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 19, July 15, 1875, p. 226
spiritual_scientist_v.02_n.19_1875-07-15.pdf|page=12|Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 19, July 15, 1875, p. 226
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scientific_american_v.33_n.24_1875-12-11.pdf|page=10|Scientific American, v. 33, No. 24, December 11, 1875, p. 37
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