Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.
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- Publication/creation
- Cincinnati : R. Clarke & co., 1887.
- Physical description
- viii, [5]-194 pages ; 21 cm
- Contributors
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Minor, Thomas Chalmers, 1846-1912.
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
- Type/technique
- Electronic books
- Subjects
- Medicine
- Attribution and usage
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" I wish I were dead !" exclaimed Paulus Androcydes.
" Then could I learn more and more of the mysteries
of nature. Oh ! what a joyous revelation is this ! What
infinite delight it will be to wander through the misty
ages of the future, when centuries shall be as days and
weeks as millions of centuries. How I long to leave my
present form of life and plunge into the hereafter. Oh!
you have made me happy ! "
" Be patient! " remarked Athothis consolingly. " You
must live in order to learn ; and to live in any form of
life is to suffer physical torture. If transmigration has
its pleasures, it also has its pains. Oh! mortal man, can
you imagine that I, Athothis, would be as happy to-night
if transmigration meant eternal bliss. Know that all
created things have their joys and sorrows; love
and are beloved ; are separated by disease or violent
deaths. But now, I am the possessor of all secrets and
an immortal; restored after many griefs to an infinitude
of divine joys, and no longer subject to mental or physi-
cal pain. I am truly happy, and can wander through
space forever, visiting the sun, moon, and stars, the
myriad of planets invisible to human eyes in the vast
unfathomless beyond—a thaumaturgist, moving unharmed
through earth, air, fire, and water, learning wisdom until
the very ages grow gray and Patah creates new worlds
of mysteries for solution. This divine bliss comes to all
who merit it. It will come to you, if you strive to de-
serve it by fulfilling well each part assigned in the natural
order of creation. Be thankful that you are living to a
ripe old age in your present abode, and acquire all the
knowledge possible, love deeper, and withal fix your eyes
heavenward. Study the stars, and see in their constella-
tions, those brighter intellectual spirits that now sparkle