The Seven Follies of Science to Which is Added a Small Budget of Interesting Pa
The Seven Follies of Science to Which is Added a Small Budget of Interesting Pa
John Phin
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Accordingly, the College of Physicians has a right to abandon its motto, which is, Ars longa y vita brevis, meaning, Practice is long, so life is short" As set forth by Digby and others, the use of the Powder of Sympathy is free from all taint of witchcraft or magic, but, in another form, it was wholly dependent upon incanta- tions and other magical performances. This idea of sym- pathetic action was even carried so far as to lead to attempts to destroy or injure those whom the operator dislike...d. In some cases this was done by moulding an image in wax which, when formed under proper occult influences, was supposed to have the power of transferring to the victim any injuries inflicted on the image. Into such images pins and knives were thrust in the hope that the living original would suffer the same pains and mutilations that would be inflicted if the knives or pins were thrust into him, and sometimes the waxen form was held before the fire and 114 THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE allowed to melt away slowly in the hope that the prototype would also waste away, and ultimately die.
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