Show art and the star the middle ages when astrology was in fashion a character very much like our E was the sign of jupiter the preserver of health the physicians then being equally devoted to tho science of medicine i and of astrology tr invariably began their prescriptions script ions with the following words in the name of jupiter take the following doses in the order set down hereinafter in the course of time this formula was abbreviated until at present only the letter B remains to teach us that medical art was once associated socia ted with the science of the stara |