protology

And hence the progress of the history of salvation is the progress of protology in the progressive development of its starting-point.

Or, alternatively, perhaps they are the first human beings as described in tribal protologies.

The writer states that: (1) during the past decade protology has come to include diseases of the colon, and that the extension is beneficial inasmuch as it encourages and provides for a better diagnosis, and for a more thorough search after etiology.