Medical Symbolism, in Connection with Historical Studies in the Arts of Healing and Hygiene
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a large amount of information bearing upon the history of Medicine and Symbolism. His style is pleasant, his language well chosen, and the subject interesting; so that although the book is learned it is easy reading. So far as we know, this is the first medical work in which the "Aryan " origin of learning and belief is not universally accepted, and in which there is also demonstrated how much of existing knowledge and faith we have inherited from the pre-Semitic dwellers in Mesopotamia. To say that Dr. Sozinskey is not at times a
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