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On being informed of it, the Governor sent a party over with orders to affix a plate of copper on a tree near the place, with the following inscription on it, which is a copy of what was written on the board: Hic jacet L. RECEVEUR, E.F.F. minnibus Galliae, Sacerdos, Physicus, in circumnavigatione mundi, Duce De La Perrouse. Obiit die 17 Februarii, anno 1788.
In the Encyclopaedia Americana you will find a sketch of the life of George John Romanes, from which the following extract is taken: "Romanes, George John, English scientist. In 1879 he was elected fellow of the Royal Society and in 1878 published, under the pseudonym 'Physicus, a work entitled, 'A Candid Examination of Theism, in which he took up a somewhat defiant atheistic position.
We must admit that we cannot penetrate into the true state of the case, because the world is deeper than our knowledge, we must reject parallelism as being, like the influxus physicus, an unsatisfactory cutting of the critical knot, and we must frankly recognise the incontrovertible fact, never indeed seriously called in question, of the controlling power of the mind, even over the material.
And from this latter standpoint sharp protests are raised against all materialistic distortions. The only thing denied is the old idea of the “influxus physicus,” the idea, that is, that mind can operate beyond itself and take effect on the physical world, and conversely the physical world upon it. This again is regarded as a breach of the law of the conservation of energy.
It is only a variant mode of appearing on the part of one and the same reality so Fries remarks in opposition to the influxus physicus and the harmonia praestabilata which now shows me my person inwardly as my spirit, and now outwardly as the life-process of my body. Practical philosophy includes ethics, the philosophy of religion, and aesthetics.
In this case, the admission of an influxus physicus transforms consciousness almost unnoticed into a mechanically operative causality. The proper attitude in both cases is a critical one.
The claim can be made for the Greeks that some at least among them were deflected by no theory, were deceived by no theurgy, were hampered by no tradition in their search for the facts of disease and in their attempts at interpreting its phenomena. Perhaps the word physicianus was introduced to make a distinction from the charm-mongering physicus.
All this, too, is done in a simple, graceful, and flowing style, always amusive, and sometimes humorously illustrative advantages which our philosophical writers do not generally exhibit, but which are more or less evident in every page of Sir Humphry Davy's writings. Salmonia consists of a series of conversations between four characters Halieus, Poietes, Physicus, Ornither.
In later Latin physicus and medicus are almost always interchangeable. At a certain stage in the history of the Western world the exact point in time may be disputed but the event is admitted by all men turned to explore the treasures of the ancient wisdom and the whole mass of Greek medical learning was gradually laid before the student.
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