"Sympathetical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made of corpuscles, or spiritual effluences, radiated from the living body; though we cannot get very clear ideas on this head, or respecting the manner in which they were caught.—Medicina Diatastica; or, Sympathetical Mummie, abstracted from the Works of Paracelsus, and translated out of the Latin, by Fernando Parkhurst, Gent. London, 1653, pp. 2, 7. Quoted by the Foreign Quarterly Review, ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay |
