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Pathogen Pathology Pathos
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

~ PATH          id+ | ITINERARY |        sug> WAY
~ PATHETIC      id+  | DISTURBED SOUL |  sug> COURSE
                also   PITIFUL   DEPLORABLE
                       MISERABLE
~ PATHO~        or
~ ~PATHO~       prefix or root from
                skt PATHA  = WAY or ROAD
                gr  PATHOS   or
                    PATHEIN  denotes feelings as in
                SUFFER  AFFAIR  PATHETIC
                SYMPATHY  EMPATHY  ANTIPATHY
~ PATHOGEN      med> of A CAUSE OF DISEASE
                     also AN AGENT or CAUSE of DISEASE
~ PATHOGENESIS  med> THE STUDY OF DISEASE MECHANISM or
                     PATHWAYS HOW CAUSES ARE TRANSLATED
     INTO EFFECTS PERCEIVED AS SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS
     in short TRANSLATION OF CAUSE INTO EFFECT
     or                      ETIOLOGY from ETYMOS = TRUE
     into ILLNESS or a PATHOLOGIC STATE or
          PATHOLOGIC PHYSIOLOGY or
                GENESIS of PATHOGENESIS
~ PATHOLOGY  id+ | STUDY OF THE ESSENCE or
                   NATURE OF HEALTH ABNORMALITIES |
             med> STUDY OF DISEASE MECHANISMS
                  rather than CAUSES
~ PATHIC  see> PATHOS below
~ PATHOS  id+ | SOUL PSYCHE EGO that which FEELS |
          gr for "THAT WICH HAPPENS" or  "REGISTERS"
  note EMPATHY COMPASSION SYMPATHY AFFINITY thus
       LOVE from PATHOS for FEELINGS
  note DISEASE implies " NOT AT EASE "
  note PATHOS and ETHOS can be be COMPLEMENTARY
  see> ETHIC  see> AIDOS
  myth> consider see> DYONYSOS or DYONYSUS
        ALLEGORICAL OF ECSTASY thus of FEELINGS
  ETHICS MAY EXAMINE AND JUDGE FEELINGS BUT
  IS NOT A SOURCE OF FEELINGS   see> ATHENA
  SOME REJECT COMPASSION AS RELATED TO ETHICS
  note MANY ETHICAL PEOPLE ARE SHORT ON EMPAHTY
  art>  THEATER and other IDEAS REGARDING
        WORDS DESCRIBING FEELINGS ARE
  ROOTED IN THE WORSHIP OF DYONYSUS
  sug> BACCHANAL
  med>  FREUD STRESSED THE ROLE OF DREAMS
        DREAMS EXPRESS OUR PATHOS
  sug> TEMPER  SPIRIT  MOOD
  ply> | SYMPATHY or ANTIPATHY are in the PATH to
         PATHETIC PATHWAYS toward ETHOS and ETHIC |
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