168 et seq.

For avoidance of dissections of human subjects even by Galen and his disciples, see Maurice Albert, Les Medecins Grecs a Rome, Paris, 1894, chap.xi.

For Herophilus, Erasistratus, and the School of Alexandria, see Sprengel, vol.i, pp.

433, 434 et seq.
But with the coming in of Christianity a great new chain of events was set in motion which modified this development most profoundly.

The influence of Christianity on the healing art was twofold: there was first a blessed impulse--the thought, aspiration, example, ideals, and spirit of Jesus of Nazareth.