Excerpt from A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio "A Mortal Antipathy" was a truly hazardous experiment A very wise and very distinguished physician who is as much at home in literature as he is in science and the practice of medicine, wrote to me in referring to this story: "I should have been afraid of my subject." He did not explain himself, but I can easily understand that he felt the improbability of the physiological or pathological occurrence on which the story is founded to be so great that the ...
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Excerpt from A Mortal Antipathy: First Opening of the New Portfolio "A Mortal Antipathy" was a truly hazardous experiment A very wise and very distinguished physician who is as much at home in literature as he is in science and the practice of medicine, wrote to me in referring to this story: "I should have been afraid of my subject." He did not explain himself, but I can easily understand that he felt the improbability of the physiological or pathological occurrence on which the story is founded to be so great that the narrative could hardly be rendered plausible. I felt the difficulty for myself as well as for my readers, and it was only by recalling for our consideration a series of extraordinary but well-authenticated facts of somewhat similar character that I could hope to gain any serious attention to so strange a narrative. I need not recur to these wonderful stories. There is, however, one, not to be found on record elsewhere, to which I would especially call the reader's attention. It is that of the middle-aged man, who assured me that he could never pass a tall hall clock without an indefinable terror. While an infant in arms the heavy weight of one of these tall clocks had fallen with a loud crash and produced an impression on his nervous system which he had never got over. The lasting effect of a shock received by the sense of sight or that of hearing is conceivable enough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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First Opening of the new portfolio. Small damp stain marks on inside front cover, front endpaper, back endpaper & inside back cover. Backstrip slightly scuffed. Hardback, Ex-Library, with usual stamps markings, in good all-round condition, no dust jacket, 288pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN:
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