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A physician-scholar presents a series of essays that examine folk belief, medical history and cultural symbolism, opening with studies of the evil eye and the anthropology of fascination and superstition. He then turns to thanatology and myth, tracing serpent-myths, ritual symbolism and the links between ancient mysteries and early Christian practices. Several historical sketches profile institutions and figures, including the Knights Hospitaller and a Renaissance philosopher, while another essay sketches medieval student life. The volume concludes with focused medical histories: etymology of medical terms, the army surgeon's career, the barber-surgeon's evolution, the discovery of the circulation, and the rise of anaesthesia.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A Presidential Address before the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.

[2] Appeared first in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 27, 1912.

[3] A Presidential Address before the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.

[4] An Address before the Maine Medical Association, Portland, June 2nd, 1898.

[5] An Address given before the Chas. K. Mills Society of Students of the University of Pennsylvania, February 19, 1902.

[Reprinted from the Univ. of Penna. Medical Bulletin, March, 1902.]

[6] Address in Medicine, delivered June 24, 1902, at Yale University Commencement.

[Reprinted from the Yale Medical Journal, July, 1902.]

[7] Commencement Address at the Army Medical School, Washington, D. C., May 29, 1909.—From "The Military Surgeon," July, 1909.

[8] I leave it to defenders of the Faith to reconcile this abhorrence with the persecutions of heretics and the tortures of the Inquisition permitted by the same Church.

[9] Address delivered at the Annual Commencement of the Medical Department of the University of Chicago, (Rush Medical College), June 13, 1906.

[10] Commemorative Address delivered at the Medical Department, University of Buffalo, October 16, 1896.

Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected, but the variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation remain as in the original.

Chapter IX, Page 249

The paragraph originally read: "This recognition of our profession was accorded much more unstintingly nearly two thousand years ago, at a time when it was much less deserved, when Cicero wrote (De Natura Deorum) "Homines ad inibus dando." (Men are never more godlike than when giving health to mankind)."

The missing line in the Latin quotation has been restored.