CENTRAL AND WESTERN ASIA, EUROPE, AND ELSEWHERE,
BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA.

SHOWING THEIR RELATIONS TO RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS
AS THEY NOW EXIST.

BY

THOMAS INMAN, M.D. (LONDON),

AUTHOR OF ANCIENT FAITHS EMBODIED IN ANCIENT NAMES," ETC., ETC.
CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, LIVERPOOL;
LECTURER, SUCCESSIVELY, ON BOTANY, MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, THERAPEUTICS, MATERIA

MEDICA, AND THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, ETC., IN

THE LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: ETC.

NEW YORK:

J. W. BOUTON, 706 BROADWAY.

LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO.

1876.

Bought 1576.

COPYRIGHTED BY
J. W. BOUTON.

1875.

TO THOSE

WHO THIRST AFTER KNOWLEDGE,

AND ARE NOT DETERRED FROM SEEKING IT

BY THE FEAR OF IMAGINARY DANGERS,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, WITH GREAT RESPECT,

BY

THE AUTHOR.

“ Οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν εὐγενέστεροι τῶν ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ, οἵτινες ἐδέξαντο τὸν λόγον μετὰ πάσης προθυμίας, τὸ καθ' ἡμέραν ἀνακρίνοντες τὰς γραφὰς εἰ ἔχοι ταῦτα οὕτως.”—ACTS XVII. 11.