Literary notes about Pathology (AI summary)
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.
- 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 - 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 - 359 Relationship between physiology and pathology again emphasized.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - 173 A characteristic “lesion” in Erasistratus’s pathology.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - Physiology and Pathology of the Mind.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - [16] Maudsley: Physiology and Pathology of the Mind.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - [170] Henry Maudsley: Physiology and Pathology of the Mind.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - “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 - They have not a conception of mental pathology!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - 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 - Instead of an illustration from pathology take a striking example from everyday life.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - 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 - 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 - 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 - Its etiology, pathology, treatment, and jurisprudence.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - 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 - 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