Ommiades ... Abassides [_standard spellings for this text_] Ibn Osaibe’s testimony [_text reads “Ibu”_] body-physicians at the Court of Harun-al-Raschid [_spelling as in original, but elsewhere spelled “Haroun”_] Xenophon in his Anabasis [_text reads “Zenophon”_] Megasthenes [_text reads “Megesthenes”_] the first of the Grecian philosophers [_text reads “philosphers”_] the Hindoos believe in _fourteen Menus_ [_and six further occurrences of “Menu”_] [_standard spelling in this text: correct form is “Manu”_] Libyans in war chariots with four horses [_text reads “Lybians”_] under the reign of Pharoah Necho [_spelling as in original_] from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean [_text reads “Mediterreanean”_] Jackson in his “Antiquities” tells us that, [_comma in original_] ♁ Denotes a chaos [_The symbol should look like an inverted “female” or “Venus”-- a cross above a circle-- but some fonts represent it as a cross within a circle._] Indra instructed Dahnwantari Dahnwantari is also styled Kasi-rajah [_correct form is “Dhanwantari”_] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art, by James Mactear