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Excerpt from Lord Lister: His Life and Work
The Egyptians were probably the most healthy people of history. Herodotus Spoke of them as the healthiest nation, and Diodorus said that from the king to his humblest subject the mode of life in Egypt seemed as if ordered by the physician rather than the lawyer. The Egyptians staved off disease by a reverent attention to the vitality of the body. They were the first people to master the question of antisepsis. By cassia, frankincense, and myrrh they preserved the body from the microbes of dissolution. But whether it was that their Vitality shielded them during life from notable microbic attack or some other reason prevailed, they confined their use of anti septics to the preservation of the dead from dis solution and not the living from disease.
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