Volume 1

The moral aspects of medical life, consisting of the 'Akesios' of Professor K.F.H. Marx / Translated from the German. With biographical notices and illustrative remarks. By James Mackness.

  • Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx
Date:
1846
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    THE MORAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL LIFE. PREFACE TO ‘ AKESIOS. * <« ‘Axéovos, or the Healer, was one of the names by which the Greeks designated the demigod whom the Egyptians called Harpocrates. His birth, which was placed in the winter solstice, indicated the feebleness of the wintry sun, whilst it left hopes, also, of his return in spring, to spread new life. Thus was the god at once an emblem of the infirmities of the sick, and of their hopes of recovery. He was also depicted holding his finger to his lips, sym- bolizing that sacred silence concerning the mysteries of medicine ever required of the initiated. “] restrict myself, in the following pages, to the former cheering and consolatory symbol. This work is designed to discuss weighty points in the healing art as it now exists. As to mysteries,—if, in fact, there be properly any such in medicine,—they will not here be unravelled. * Akesios; Blicke in die ethischen Beziehungen der Medicin, von K. F. H. Marx. Gottingen, 1844.
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