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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fascinations we also use fumigations and ammo- niacal odors when fighting against diseases of the nature of epilepsy, hysterics, hypochondriacism, and those mournful results of a disordered imagination under which reason is prostrated. The apparent miracle would disappear, if we were to recall to mind that it was the custom of the ancients to personify the principles of good and evil. CHAPTER IV. Medicine formed a Part of the Occult Science: it was not long exercised by the Priests; Diseases were supposed to be sent by Malevolent Genii, or the irritated Gods; the Cures were considered Miracles, or Works of Magic.?Credulity and the Spirit of Mystery attributed marvelous Properties to Inanimate Substances; and Charlatanism assisted this Species of Deception.?Counterfeit Cures.?Extraordinary Abstinences.? Nutritious Substances taken in an almost imperceptible Form. ?Apparent Resurrections. Carried away by our subject, we have already entered the province of science in which promises will always have the greatest power over the imagination, namely, the science of the physician. Medical science is, although it may be thwarted by unforeseen anomalies, founded upon much positive knowledge. It has not, however, been able to overcome the diseases of the intellect in a manner equal to its influence over those of the body; neither has it placed us upon our guard against those numerous secrets used by the Thaumatur- gist to disarrange the play of our organs, to deceive our senses, and to terrify our imaginations. Although originating in the temples, and revealed as an emanation from the Divine Intelligence, See the indication of this medicine in Fromann, De .Faacmo- tionr, pp. 055-938. yet medicine did not infringe upon the province of other sacred sciences. In treating...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458930873
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 94
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458930874
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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