Occult science in medicine Author:Franz Hartmann Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. THE FOUR PILLARS OF MEDICINE. The pillars upon which the practice of modern medicine rests, are:— i. A knowledge of the physical body of man, the ar... more »rangements of its organs (anatomy), their physiological functions (physiology) and the visible changes which take place in them when a disease becomes manifest (pathology). 2. A certain amount of acquaintance with physical science, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, etc., in fact with all that embodies a knowledge of the outward relations which the things in this phenomenal world bear to each other and to the body of man, (therapeutics). 3. A certain amount of acquaintance with the views and opinions of modern accepted medical authorities, however erroneous they may be. 4. A certain amount of judgment and aptitude to put the acquired theories into practice. All this is very well as far as it goes ; but it may be seen at once that all the knowledge required of a modern practitioner refers only to the external plane of existence; the animal body of man and its physical surroundings. As to a science of " psychology," to call that which goes by that name as such at present, is a misnomer; for there can be no science of the soul as long as the existence of a soul (pysche) is not recognized. The invisible, spiritual or causal body within the nature of man is entirely Only very recently in the courts of Vienna during a sensational trial in regard to the state of nan compos mentis, concerning a nobleman, who left a considerable fortune to his servants, the total ignorance of the experts on "psychology" regarding all matters concerning the soul, and their total incapacity to judge of the character and motives of a person, became so plain and was exposed in such a ludicrous manner, that it became the public opinion, whic...« less