Cacoethic

//ˌkakəʊˈiːθik//

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From Nature's womb vitality will burst / Upon the optic and all other nerves, / To make us stare with wonder at ourselves. / The valetudinarian thus will learn / One cacoëthic cause of all his woe.

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Henry Vaughan's charming "Upon a Cloke Lent Him by Mr. J. Ridsley," […] has been variously described as a macabre performance, phantasmagoric dream, or Democritean jest, but not to my knowledge as an anti-ode without strophe or antistrophe whose subject is an object, or, rather, the subject suffering under the cross of the object – "that which must be borne" – whose slate-like identity is defined and literally drawn upon (character'd) by the objectivity of the borrowed garment, a textile-message that is heavy enough in its cacoethic weave to read as a versified psychoanalytic narrative.

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Now theſe two Parts of Surgery I ſhould have inlarged more upon, being they are notable branches of our Art, as well as Wounds, Fractures, and Luxations, but time permitted not. Several of them that proceed from Wounds and Contuſions, and ſome from Plethory and Choller, I have touched upon already, and will add no more about them; bur others from a Cacoethic habit of Body, tis neceſſary that I now observe unto you.

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Take red Lead two Ounces, diſtill'd Vinegar two Pounds, digeſt for many Days; this Liquor being diſtill'd is us'd for a Fomentation in cacoethic Ulcers, call'd Nomæ, Phagædænica.

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