Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

might restore life to its original habitation. This has chanced to happen to me, and, in the present instance, you were the medium through whom such power was made manifest. How can I ever sufficiently reward you, my mortal friend? " Doctor Paulus Androcydes bowed his head for a moment as if in deep thought, and answered : " It is true, Athothis, that I have been the medium through whom you have been restored to your great original and man- like form, yet, on reflection, I clearly perceive that all I have done has been through the wisdom set forth in your hieroglyphical scroll. Without the knowledge thus ac- quired I should have been utterly powerless to render any service; therefore I can not ask, much less expect, a recompense." Athothis glanced at the doctor approvingly, and said: " You are partially in the right my mortal friend ; never- theless, if you had not had an innate belief in that which was written thousands of years ago, the tests would never have been applied. You may insist that you had no such belief, yet the very fact that you had a lingering doubt implies that you were not altogether devoid of faith." "As for that," replied the physician, " I fear you de- ceive yourself, for I have long insisted that ancient authors claimed to know much and really possessed slight knowl- edge. Strongly imbued with the spirit of scepticism that so extensively pervades scientific circles at the present day, I have always asserted that what was most true in this world was new. I have ever scoffed at its doctrine of immor- tality and the resurrection of the body, and only yester- day would have laughed to scorn any individual affirm- ing a belief in metempsychosis. As for the Egypt of