Modicus Cibi Medicus Sibi: Or Nature Her Own Physician (1880)

John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
21 November 2009
Pages
124
ISBN
9781120648228

Modicus Cibi Medicus Sibi: Or Nature Her Own Physician (1880)

John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

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: was once a golden age of free science, but Celsus hugged his chains. Vivisection of the human subject, which is now only a ‘frommer Wunsch, ’ was possible to the ancients: (Celsus i praef. p. 4 1. 35 Daremberg) the dietetics taught necessarium … esse incidere corpora mortuorum, eorumque viscera atque intestina scrutari; longeque optime ferisse Herophilum et Erasistratum, qui nocentes homines, a regibus ex carcere acceptos, vivos inciderint, considerarintque etiamnum spiritu remanente, ea quae natura ante dausisset. Some condemned the practice as cruel (p. 7 1. 15) neque esse crudele, sicut plerique proponunt, hominum nocentium, et horum quoque pau- corum, suppliciis remedia populis innocentibus saeculorum omnium quaeri. The empirics regarded such torture as misleading no less than cruel (p. 7 1. 14) atque ea quidem, de quibus est dictum, supervacua esse tantum- modo; id vero, quod restat, etiam crudele: vivorum hominum alvum atque praecordia incidi et salutis humanae praesidem artem non solum pestem alicui, sed hanc etiam atrocissimam, inferre; cum praesertim ex Us, qnae tanta violentia quaeranlur, alia non possint omnino cognosci, alia possint etiam sine scelere; (1. 34) if a mortui demum praecordia et viscus omne in conspectum latrocinantis medic i dart necesse est tale, quale mortui sit, non quale vivi fuit. si quid tamen sit, quod adhuc spirante homine conspectui subiciatur, id saepe casum offer re curantibus. interdum enim gladiator em in harena vel militem in acie vel viatorem a latronibus exceptum sic vulnerari, ut eius interior aliqua pars aperiatur, et in alioalia: ita sedempositum ordinem figuram similiaque alia cognoscere prudentem medicum, non caedem sed sani- tatem molientem; idque per misericordiam discere, quod alii dira crudelitate cognorint. ob haec ne …

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