THE EVIL EYE
THANATOLOGY
AND OTHER ESSAYS

ROSWELL PARK, M. D., LL.D. (Yale)

RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
BOSTON

Copyright, 1912, by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved

The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

To

Sir William Osler, M. D., LL.D.,
F. R. C. P., etc.

Regius Professor of Medicine,
Oxford University.

Ideal Scholar and Friend.

PREFACE

Responsibility for the following collection of essaysand addresses (occasional papers) rests perhapsnot more with their writer, who was not unwillingto see them presented in a single volume, than withthose of his friends who were complimentary enoughto urge their assemblage and publication in this shape.They partake of the character of studies in that borderlandof anthropology, biology, philology andhistory which surrounds the immediate domain ofmedical and general science. This ever offers astanding invitation and an enduring fascination forthose who will but raise their eyes from the fertile andarable soil in which they concentrate their most arduouslabors. Too close confinement in this fieldmay result in greater commercial yield, but the fragranceof the clover detracts not at all from the valueof the hay, nor do borderland studies result otherwisethan in enlargement of the boundaries of one'sstorm center of work.

No strictly technical nor professional papers havebeen reprinted herein, while several of those whichappear do so for the first time.

Buffalo, December, 1912.

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