The Black Arts in Medicine: With Anniversary Address (Classic Reprint)

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This instinct in man, as the highest reasoning animal, exhibits itself under a somewhat different phase, to the form of it developed in the brutes; for after exhausting all natural aids, the principle of preservation causes him to appeal to the super natural for assistance. That carter of classical fable, who when his horses failed him, appealed to Hercules for help, is but a type of the actual man of the world of all ages, past and present.

To this principle, we owe the superstition of our nature, a superstition, which at one time or another, has infused itself into all three of the learned pro fessions, and more particularly into our own, in which to-day, a close scrutiny will show a few lin gering traces.

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