as the grand and simple title of our ancient science, meaning
that which causes the changes in the elementary types and their combinations--than which no more descriptive title could be assigned to it, even in the present enlightened age.
Apollonius Tyanæus [_text reads "Appolonius"_]
Hercules and Bacchus (Dionysius) [_text reads "Dionsyius"_]
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"_]
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_]
Indra instructed Dahnwantari; Dahnwantari is also styled Kasi-rajah [_correct form is "Dhanwantari"_]
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