E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 59331-h.htm or 59331-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59331/59331-h/59331-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59331/59331-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/origingrowthofhe00berduoft Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A caret character is used to denote superscription. Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: Excell^{mi}). THE HEALING ART. * * * * * * _WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ THE BROWNING CYCLOPÆDIA. A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning, with copious Explanatory Notes and References on all difficult passages. Second Edition. Pp. xx., 572. Price 10_s._ 6_d._ SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. “Conscientious and painstaking.”—_Times._ “A serviceable book, and deserves to be widely bought.”—_The Spectator._ “A book of far-reaching research and careful industry.”—_Scotsman._ “A most learned and creditable piece of work.”—_Vanity Fair._ “A monument of industry and devotion.”—_Bookman._ BROWNING’S MESSAGE TO HIS TIME: His Religion, Philosophy, and Science. With Portrait and Facsimile Letters. Third Edition. Price 3_s._ 6_d._ [Dilettante Library.] OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. “Full of admiration and sympathy.”—_Saturday Review._ “Should have a wide circulation; it is interesting and stimulative.”—_Literary World._ “We have no hesitation in strongly recommending this little volume to any who desire to understand the moral and mental attitude of Robert Browning.... We are much obliged to Dr. Berdoe for his volume.”—_Oxford University Herald._ * * * * * * [Illustration: EXPELLING THE DISEASE-DEMON. [_Frontispiece._] THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE HEALING ART A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries. by EDWARD BERDOE, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England; Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, London, etc., etc. Author of “The Browning Cyclopædia,” etc., etc. [Illustration: Publishers device] London Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Paternoster Square 1893 Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London. PREFACE.