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Day 72 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day ChallengeOct 15: VESPUCCI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST VOYAGEFirst Families of America "They are a people smooth and clean of body because of continually washing themselves—they eat all their enemies whom they kill or capture." Amerigo Vespucci thus writes of the New World inhabitants. Read: VESPUCCI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST VOYAGE ....... Vol. 43, pp. 28-44 Oct 16: HIPPOCRATES' OATH AND LAWWhen Medicine Was a Mystery Once physicians treated the sick with a mixture of medicine and charms. In those days medicine was regarded as a dark art like magic, and those practicing it formed guilds to protect themselves. Read: HIPPOCRATES' OATH AND LAW ................ Vol. 38, pp. 3-5 Oct 17: Browne's RELIGIO MEDICIReason His Only Religion The religion of Thomas Browne—a liberal man in a most intolerant time—was not taken from either Rome or Geneva, but from his own reason. Read from Browne's RELIGIO MEDICI ................ Vol. 3, pp. 253-265 Oct 18: SHELLEY'S POEMS"If Winter Comes" From the title of a recently popular novel, we know that one prominent fiction writer of to-day was inspired by the verses of Shelley. Many others have also felt the stirring vigor of his poetry. What is your reaction? Read: SHELLEY'S POEMS .......................... Vol. 41, pp. 829-835 |