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Manes Mania Manis
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ MANES  id+ | SPIRITS OF THE DEAD |
         or DII MANES
         pl is  MANIS
~ MANIA  in gr = MADNESS    see> MIND
         often implies OBSESSIVE or EXAGGERATED as in
     EROTOMANIA  PYROMANIA  etc
     correlated symptoms include EXPANSIVENESS
     ELATION  AGITATION  HYPERACTIVITY
     med> MANIA MAY REACH SUCH A DEGREE THAT THE
          FLEEING OF IDEAS FROM ONE POINT OF ATTENTION
     TO ANOTHER REACHES A STAGE TO PRODUCE MENTAL AND
     PHYSICAL DISABILITY
     note sp MANICO MANICOMIO = MANIC and MENTAL ASYLUM
     BIPOLAR DISORDER attempts to convey the idea of
     MANIC DEPRESSIVE implying NEUROSES or PSYCHOSES
     WITH EXTREME MOOD SWINGS FROM
         ELATION to DEPRESSION
~ MANIS  myth> THE CHILDREN OF MANIA A ROMAN GODDESS OF
               THE DECEASED AND MOTHER OF
  LARES and MANES WHICH ARE GHOSTS LIKE CREATURES or
  SPIRITS or SOULS OF THE DEPARTED WHO INHABIT THE SHADOWS
  biol> mamm MANIDAE  MANITHERIA are names for animals who
        hide during the day to feed at night
  ply> | MANIS CAN MANIPULATE MANIA AND PREVENT MANUMISSION |
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