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Roswell Park. The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
Table of Contents
PREFACE
II. THANATOLOGY
III. SERPENT-MYTHS AND SERPENT-WORSHIP[3]
IV. IATRO-THEURGIC SYMBOLISM[4]
V. THE RELATION OF THE GRECIAN MYSTERIES TO THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY
VI. THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM
VII. GIORDANO BRUNO
VIII. STUDENT LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES[5]
IX. A STUDY OF MEDICAL WORDS, DEEDS AND MEN[6]
X. THE CAREER OF THE ARMY SURGEON[7]
XI. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SURGEON FROM THE BARBER
XII. THE STORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION
XIII. HISTORY OF ANAESTHESIA AND THE INTRODUCTION OF ANAESTHETICS IN SURGERY[10]
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Roswell Park
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Is there a vital principle? If so what is it? Is such a thing conceivable? Can such a concept prevail among physicists? Can we consent even to entertain in this direction the notion of what is so vaguely called "the soul?" Of course, those who talk most lucidly about the soul know least about it, and no man can define it in comprehensible terms; but can consideration of the soul (whatever it may be) be omitted from our thanatology? Probably not, at least by many thinkers who cannot segregate their physics from their theology. Sad it is that theology, which might be so consolatory had it any fixed foundation, should be utterly impotent when so much is wanted of it. Theology, however, has little if aught to do with thanatology.
Is protoplasm alive? If so, then why may we not believe, with Binet, in the psychic life of micro-organisms? He seems to have advanced good reason for assuming that we may do so, albeit such manifestations in either direction may be scarcely more than expressions of chemiotaxis. But if protoplasm be alive in any proper sense, as it would appear (else where draw the line?), just when does it so appear and whence comes its life? If it be alive, then life inheres in the nitrogen compounds composing it, or else is an adjunct of matter, imponderable, elusive, something un-conceivable if undeniable. The vitalists are of late perhaps attaining an ascendency which for decades they had lost, since they maintain that life is not to be explained by chemical activities alone. And yet it is possible to set going in the eggs of certain sea animals the phenomena of life, or to liberate them by certain weak solutions of alkaline cyanides, without the pressure or assistance of fructifying spermatozoa. In such cases life or death are determined by ionization and certain chemicals, or by their absence. Where then, again, is the vital principle? Or is it inherent in the ion, and was Bion correct when he said "electricity is life?"
