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The term "pathology" has been employed in literature with a remarkable range of meanings, reflecting its evolution from a strict medical designation to a broader metaphorical and disciplinary application. Early works by Galen ([1], [2], [3], [4]) used pathology to denote the study of bodily malfunctions and natural lesions, laying a foundation that would later be adapted across diverse fields. In the realm of mind and behavior, texts like Hans Gross's discussions ([5], [6], [7]) and Chekhov’s narrative snippets ([8], [9]) reveal a probe into mental disorders and social aberrations, while Freud’s psychoanalytic writings ([10], [11], [12]) extend the concept to include the subtle, everyday conditions that might escape conventional observation. Furthermore, authors such as Nietzsche ([13]) and Bergson ([14]) adopt pathology as a metaphor to critique absolute states of being, and works in sociology, jurisprudence, and even forestry ([15], [16], [17]) illustrate its application beyond human physiology. Thus, across literature, "pathology" emerges as a versatile term that not only diagnoses physical and mental ailments but also symbolizes broader deviations from the norm.
  1. 267 In other words: if dyscrasia is a first principle in pathology , then eucrasia must be a first principle in physiology .
    — from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
  2. In respect to excessive formation of bile, however, prevention is better than cure: accordingly we must consider its pathology.
    — from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
  3. 359 Relationship between physiology and pathology again emphasized.
    — from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
  4. 173 A characteristic “lesion” in Erasistratus’s pathology.
    — from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
  5. Physiology and Pathology of the Mind.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  6. [16] Maudsley: Physiology and Pathology of the Mind.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  7. [170] Henry Maudsley: Physiology and Pathology of the Mind.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  8. “Oh, oh,” he repeated, “do you know it’s very possible they may offer me the Readership in General Pathology?
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  9. They have not a conception of mental pathology!”
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  10. You will soon understand why pathology may disclose conditions which we would have overlooked in the normal object.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  11. Instead of an illustration from pathology take a striking example from everyday life.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  12. I believe we are in harmony with the teachings of general pathology in assuming that this development involves two dangers, inhibition and regression.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  13. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
    — from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  14. Maybe dramatists have caught a glimpse of a fact recently brought forward by mental pathology, viz.
    — from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson
  15. Its etiology, pathology, treatment, and jurisprudence.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  16. In 1927 the U. S. Division of Forest Pathology began breeding chestnuts to produce timber-type trees.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting
  17. During the early 1930's the Division of Forest Pathology distributed thousands of chestnut seedlings, grown from the imported chestnut seed.
    — from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting

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