76. Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of the passage?

1. Origin of medicine.
2. Rise of surgery.
3. Healing art.
4. The first lessons.

77. Late Dr. Payne thinks that ____.

1. the first lessons came to man by injuries, accidents, bites of beasts and serpents
2. the experiments of nature made clear to the primitive man the relation of cause and effect
3. the primitive man picked up his knowledge from practices in animals
4. the basis of medicine is sympathy and the desire to help others

78. Celsus believes that ____.

1. he picked up his earliest knowledge from observation of certain practices in animals
2. those who didn't eat at all during a fever would recover the slowest
3. medicine originated from the experience of the recovery and death of the sick and wounded
4. those who spared some diet were made worse

79. Celsus's account of the origin of rational medicine is mainly concerned with ____.

1. the knowledge that the more one ate during a disease the sooner one recovered
2. the way diets affect the healing of diseases
3. the suggestive association of ideas in treating illnesses
4. distinguishing the hurtful from the salutary things

80. We can infer from the passage that ____.

1. Lucas-Championniere had undergone trephining four times
2. trephining is the only operation for treating cerebral diseases even today
3. trephining was actually only performed on animals in the ancient times
4. the oldest practice of trephining is the origin of the modern decompression operation

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