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Title: Studies in the history and method of science
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960
Subjects: Medicine Science
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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factors, the formlesssoul from the Almighty and the corrupt fluid instilled by the devil,also contribute to the character of offspring. This is the usualmediaeval view and is broadly portrayed in the figure. The strange conception of the body being formed from the seed,as cheese is precipitated and curdled from milk, is doubtless derivedfrom a passage in the Book of Job: Hast thou not poured me out as milk,And curdled me like cheese ?Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh.And knit me together with bones and sinews (Job x. 10,11).* When the body has thus taken shape there enters into it thesoul which, though at first shapeless, gradually assumes the formof its host, the earthly tabernacle ; and at death the soul departs 1 Migne, col. 415. 2 Migne, col. 421. 3 Migne, col. 424. * The Aristotelian wiitings also compare the transformation of the materialhumours into the childs body with the solidification of milk in the formation ofcheese. From WIESBADEN CODEX B, f o 4 7 r we^m-j^^m^k^m
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-(jum^m^mmMmswiM Plate XXIII. THE VISION OF THE TRINITY OF SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1180) 51 through the mouth with the last breath, as a fully developed nakedhuman shape, to be received by devils or angels as the case may be(Plate XX). During its residence in the body the soul plays the part usuallyassigned to it in the earlier mediaeval psychology, before the ideasof Nemesius and Ibn Ghazali had been elaborated and systematizedby Albert and Aquinas. Hildegard regards the brain as havingthree chambers or divisions, corresponding to the three parts ofmans nature, an idea encountered in the writings of St. Augustme.Parallel to these there are, she tells us, three elements in man by which he shows life ; to wit, soul(anima), body (corpus), and sense (sensus). The soul vivifies thebody and inspires the senses; the body attracts the soul andreveals the senses; the senses affect the soul and allure the body.For the soul rules the body as a flame throws light into darkness,and it has two princ

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