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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...and extracts inspissated from plants gathered when the planets were in trine, or the sun in Jupiter. Of a like class were all the Egyptian remedies--superstitious, empirical, and absurd to an extreme degree; when therefore, in the sixth judgment, both physician and patient were attacked by the plague of boils, neither charm nor prayer availed them, no rank excepted, or amulet protected,--all suffered alike. The seventh act of the drama of the Dies Irae commenced with a fearful storm. Rain, though not unknown in Egypt, was the particular attribute of the feminine deities--of Isis, queen of heaven, of Sate, goddess of the material sky, and of Neith, the spiritual heaven, and goddess of wisdom. The souls of the dead, which were supposed to ascend to the heavens, were by Isis and Neith especially protected, and from them all blessings descended. But in this plague, regardless of, and restraintless by, feminine d ities, the hail and lightning descended, and, terrified by the awful 'udgment, the king, disowning his own divinity, declared that he was wicked, a concession of a nature which only those who well understand the Egyptian theology can duly appreciate. As the seventh with storm, so the eighth with locusts, devastated the land, and the trees, which themselves were sacred, the vegetable gods, despised by Juvenal and ridiculed by Pliny,--the pine, the tree of life; the tamarisk, that of knowledge; the lotus, sacred to the dead, the papyrus to the gods, and many lesser vegetables to lesser deities,--all were smitten then, and finally the locust, rarely seen, and scarcely, from its rarity, even dreaded in Egypt, devoured all that the hail had left. As the curtain closed upon the awful tragedy, the stage of the theatre became darkened, for...