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Anna Pappritz admits that the present barbarous laws in regard to abortion must be modified, but maintains that they should not be abolished. Cf. Dr. Max Hirsch, Sexual-Probleme, Jan., 1908, p. 23. Gomperz, Greek Thinkers, vol. i, p. 564. F.E. Daniel, President of the State Medical Association of Texas, "Should Insane Criminals or Sexual Perverts be Allowed to Procreate?"
Let me quote a statement from Gomperz: "We can trace the springs of Greek success achieved and maintained by the great men of Hellas on the field of scientific inquiry to a remarkable conjunction of natural gifts and conditions.
Gomperz: Greek Thinkers, Vol. I, p. 281. I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
Mrs Montefiore, Mrs Cohen, Miss Lucy Cohen, and Mr Gomperz each spread some Terra Santa, and fixed two bricks, praying the Almighty to prosper the undertaking and bless them. The following is the account given by Mr Montefiore of the ceremony of laying the foundation stone. "Tuesday, 9th August. New moon of Tamooz.
Though the protest was effective in certain directions, we shall see that the authors of the Hippocratic writings could not entirely escape from the hypotheses of the older philosophers. Gomperz: Greek Thinkers, Vol. I, p. 296. I can do no more than indicate in the briefest possible way some of the more important views ascribed to Hippocrates.
The veil of nature the Greek lifted and herein lies his value to us. What of this Genius? How did it arise among the peoples of the AEgean Sea? In 1912, there was published a book by one of the younger Oxford teachers, "The Greek Genius and Its Meaning to Us," from which those who shrink from the serious study of Gomperz' four volumes may learn something of the spirit of Greece.
It would be exceedingly strange," Gomperz adds, in arguing that an inference may thus be drawn concerning the historical Aspasia, "if three authors Plato, Xenophon and Æschines had agreed in fictitiously enduing the companion of Pericles with what we might very reasonably have expected her to possess a highly cultivated mind and intellectual influence."
He was enjoined to observe the most scrupulous cleanliness, and was advised to cultivate an elegance removed from all signs of luxury, even down to the detail that he might use perfumes, but not in an immoderate degree." But the high-water mark of professional morality is reached in the famous Hippocratic oath, which Gomperz calls "a monument of the highest rank in the history of civilization."
De Generatione Animalium, Oxford translation, Bk. II, Chap. 6, Works V, 743 a. In Vol. IV of Gomperz' "Greek Thinkers," you will find an admirable discussion on Aristotle as an investigator of nature, and those of you who wish to study his natural history works more closely may do so easily in the new translation which is in process of publication by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Gomperz: Greek Thinkers, Vol. I, p. 276. The nature philosophers of the Ionian days did not contribute much to medicine proper, but their spirit and their outlook upon nature influenced its students profoundly. Their bold generalizations on the nature of matter and of the elements are still the wonder of chemists.
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