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ATHOTHIS:
A SATIRE ON MODERN MEDICINE.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCES DOCTOR PAULUS ANDROCYDES AND HIS PET
CAT ANUBIS.
HE cathedral bells were chiming the hour of
midnight, yet Doctor Paulus Androcydes still
lingered over a roll of papyrus and slowly de-
ciphered the curious hieroglyphics. On an
oriental rug in front of an open grate, filled with red
coals, sat an enormous Angora cat, which seemed to be
enjoying the heat radiated from the burning embers. A
lamp of antique pattern, suspended from the ceiling by
copper chains, threw a mysterious light over the spec-
tacled student, and defined the various objects around it
with peculiar distinctness.
In each corner of the apartment hung carved oaken
brackets, shaped in imitation of the Egyptian lotus, sym-
bolic of life eternal. Poised on each of these supports
was a stuffed bird; on one a hawk, the hieroglyphic for
the soul, sacred to Horus ; on another a lapwing, typical
of the solar period, the return of Osiris to life; on a
third an ibis, or crane, significant of intelligence; on a
fourth, a swallow with outstretched wings. The ceiling
