Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites: Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Netten Radcliffe

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ISBN 10 : 1330249607 ISBN 13 : 9781330249604

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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To trace the origin of this belief, the causes of the various modifications it has undergone, and the phases it has assumed, is, perhaps, one of the most interesting researches to which the miild can be given, interesting, inasmuch as we find pervading every part of it the eflfects of those passions and aflfections which are most powerful and permanent in our nature. So general is the belief in a supreme and overruling Power, possessing attributes altogether different from and superior to human powers, and bending these and the forces of nature to its will, that the thought has been entertained by many that it is inborn in man.

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Biographie de l'auteur

John Netten Radcliffe (20 April 1826 – 11 September 1884) was an English epidemiologist. Life The son of Charles Radcliffe, and younger brother of Dr. Charles Bland Radcliffe, he was born in Yorkshire and received his early medical training at the Leeds school of medicine. Shortly after obtaining his diploma he went to the Crimea as a surgeon attached to the headquarters of Omar Pasha, and remained there till the close of the war. He received for his services the Order of the Medjidie as well as the Turkish and English medals, with a clasp for Sebastopol. On returning home he became medical superintendent of the Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in Queen Square, London. In 1865 Radcliffe was asked to prepare a report on the appearance of cholera abroad, and in 1866 he was engaged in investigating the outbreak in East London, which he traced to the infected supply of the East London Water Company. This report appeared as a blue-book[disambiguation needed] in 1867, and gained Radcliffe a reputation. He was elected a member of the Epidemiological Society in 1850, was its honorary secretary 1862–1871, and president 1875–1877. In November 1869 he was appointed to the second of the two public health inspectorships then created by the privy council, and, on the formation of the local government board in 1871, he was made assistant medical officer. In poor health, he resigned the post in 1883, and died on 11 September 1884

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330249607
• ISBN 13: 9781330249604
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
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