Zanthon: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Doran, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0483416622 ISBN 13 : 9780483416628

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Zanthon: A Novel

The fields were to him a book in which he saw vast wonders. He was acquainted with the efficacy of foxglove, tansy, yel low dock, hazel and a long list of other plants growing in the neighborhood.

He knew that green weed, or Dyer's broom, was useful in hydrophobia, oak bark in intermittent fever and hemlock in cancer, applied externally.

The red oil extracted from the witches' herb recommended by Dioscorides, a Greek physician, in the army of Rome and by Galen, who served with the Emperor Aurelius, was known to him. His researches went further still. He not only con trolled the powers of the Spanish fly, but found those residing in the bedbug, the cockroach and the common housefly. It was said that when urged to action by the entreaties of a woman weeping for the loss of her daughter, a girl twelve years of age, that he restored her to life, although she was supposed to have been dead at least an hour. He held to the belief that a cer tain percentage of those who die could be restored to life if medical science were advanced some degrees further than its condition in his time.

As superstition was distributed around him to an alarming extent, he learned to use it occasionally to cover his real Opera tions, instead of endeavoring to remove it altogether, a process indeed beyond the capacity of his powers to achieve. Hence, he was obliged to practice secretiveness in all transactions with the people, so as to pander to their opinions, as well as to keep the essence of knowledge to himself. On this account he was reputed to be skilled in black art and to be able to use it successfully as a weapon against witchcraft, which prevailed largely in that country.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0483416622
• ISBN 13: 9780483416628
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 541
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