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Egypt from the earliest times had been the University of Greece. It had been visited, according to tradition, by Orpheus and Homer: there Solon had studied law-making: there the rules and principles of the Pythagorean order had been obtained : there Thales had taken lessons in geometry: there Democritus had laughed and Xenophanes had sneered. And now every intellectual Greek made the voyage to that country: it was regarded as a part of education, as a pilgrimage to the cradle-land of their mytho
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― The Martyrdom of Man
― The Martyrdom of Man
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Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.
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― The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
― The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
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