Excerpt from The Debt of Medicine to the Fine Arts: The Presidential Address, Delivered on October 11th, 1922, at the Opening of the Fiftieth Session of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society In Rome, too, all that survived of science and medicine was a mere thread of Greek tradition. Roman art was in the main degenerate Greek art so far as concerned. The plastic and aesthetic arts. Rome Was interested chie y in the arts of government and war, the arts of peace were subju'gated under. Her iron sway. To Egypt and Rome succeeded the Arabian, Mohammedan or Saracenic dominion. We know that the Arabians preserved for coming ages the literature of Greek 'medicine. But the Greek spirit was dead, they contributed nothing to the advancement of medical knowledge. Rhazes alone of them, perhaps, observed originally and gave us measles and small pox. Their own writer, Ibn Khaldun, summed them up Of all the people in the world they are the least capable of ruling a kingdom, of all the people in. The world they have the least aptitude for the arts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."