Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The great hall was crowded by this time, and the bright sun shining through the win- dows lit up the faces of the waiting students. On a low platform stood the professor’s chair and desk, the latter heaped with big folio volumes, the works of Galen, Rhazes Avicenna, and other great founders of the art of medicine. By the side of the plat- form was a large open fireplace, on which the logs burned brightly. Presently, from a small door at the back, Zorastro entered, clad in his now famous purple robe edged with fur, and quickly ascended the platform. A dead silence pervaded the hall, and the very air seemed charged with expectancy. A smile played about the corners of his mouth as he arranged his notes, and then rose to begin his lecture. “ Medicine is much more an art than a science,” he commenced, in a quiet voice. “To know the experience of others may be useful to a physician, but all the learning in the world cannot make a man a physician unless he has the necessary talents, and is so destined by Nature.