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later to organ failure. By all accounts, Black was devastated by the loss.Yet he continued his work in Ward C. Over the next four years, from 1874 through 1878, Blackconsistently proved himself an asset to his colleagues and made tremendous advancements in grafting,vivisection, and correctional surgery. These achievements raised the reputation of the academy tounparalleled heights.Never before has a medical arts center delivered on so many of their optimisticpromises as has the Academy of Medicine in Philadelphia. The young student iscertain to gain a qualified and most beneficial education while studying withinthose walls.—Alfred J. J. Strong, M.D., New YorkElise gave birth to another child, Victor, in the winter of 1876, but the boy’s arrival scarcely merits amention in Black’s journals. The doctor, now twenty-five years old, was changing. Once energetic, hehad become morose and cynical; many claimed that his eccentric and erratic behavior made him anincreasingly difficult personality. He also suffered from a volatile temper and a quick impatiencewith differing opinions. The burgeoning strength in his convictions that had made him famous only afew years earlier was now working against him; his reputation at the academy and even his prosperitywere in jeopardy. Still, his devotion to his research never flagged. He was so busy that he began toneglect his friends, family, and professional obligations to the academy.The frost of autumn becomes the storm of winter. I cannot rest my mind in a placeof tranquil thought. I am left to contemplate my childhood and drudge through itsugliness. I would be very pleased with a warm spring day and a sun-soaked room towork in, instead of this wet and grayed tapestry of nature’s dead season. Perhapsmy spirits would be lifted if the faces I see daily were not also gray and dead.During 1877, his last year in Ward C, Black worked less and less at the academy while devotingincreasing amounts of his attention to private studies. He developed new, polarizing ideas regardingevolution that would ultimately separate him from the rest of the scientific community. At twenty-sixyears of age, he wrote notes and theories entertaining the notion that through evolution and certainpaths of natural selection, humans had lost some of their natural and necessary traits. The lack of thesecritical elements, he believed, resulted in mutations and deformities.Furthermore, Black speculated that perhaps the human being is not the best result of evolution;perhaps our ancestors shared traits with some of the ancient animals or, more accurately, ancientmythological animals. Black claimed that scientific evidence proving the existence of ancientmythological animals had been concealed by unnamed parties; taxonomy records were destroyed,constellation records were changed, fairy tales were altered and rewritten, all in an attempt to ignoreour true history. Though Black never blamed anyone specifically for this grand conspiracy, it seemshe had a certain individual (or individuals) in mind.All of Ward C’s success and recognition appeared inconsequential to Dr. Black; he seemed tobelieve that the culmination of his work was incomplete. In this journal entry he had already resignedhimself to pursue his less-popular theories, even though he had no idea how to do so. It would take anunexpected encounter at a carnival sideshow before he would fully mature into the study of
teratology.July 1877And now, in the dawn of great discoveries, the dreary and rotten can be laid tothe wayside. I must plow forward and continue my work, research, and growth if Iam to contribute anything more than a few meager surgeries.There is so much more to be done. We at the Ward are only butchers and tailors—we are not yet healers. I wish to find the means to isolate the problem in order toeliminate subtractive surgery entirely. One who bears the weight of medical insightupon his conscience knows too well that life is not a consequence of nature butinstead its most precious and coveted secret. Nature governs its creations equally;a man can perish as easily as a plant can be destroyed beneath one’s heel.
Page 3 and 4: AN EXTRAORDINARYBIOGRAPHY.
Page 5: THE LEGACY OF AMADMAN.Philadelphia,
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Page 13 and 14: 1851-1868CHILDHOODIn my childish im
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Page 17 and 18: soul, and my knife cuts deep into t
Page 19 and 20: Three of the plants that Spencer Bl
Page 21 and 22: I am making notable improvements in
Page 23 and 24: 1870WARD CThe sustainable body of s
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Page 27 and 28: Portrait of Elise Chardelle, 1871.
Page 29: On March 1, 1872, nine months less
Page 33 and 34: Black took the fawn-child home and
Page 35 and 36: In these details, the genetic defor
Page 37 and 38: 1879-1887THE AMERICAN CARNIVALI hav
Page 39 and 40: William Cathaway Jr. criticized the
Page 41 and 42: As minister and scientist continued
Page 43 and 44: ending his arrangement with the Ame
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Page 47 and 48: 1888-1908THE HUMAN RENAISSANCEMy la
Page 49 and 50: Newspaper clipping from the Nationa
Page 51: arguing and fighting. He had grown
Page 54 and 55: Spring 1896A chance encounter has a
Page 56 and 57: must have had a great impact on Bla
Page 58 and 59: to the primitive exercise of poets
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Page 62 and 63: THECODEX EXTINCTANIMALIAA STUDY OF
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SATYRUS HIRCINUS
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BLACK’S MINOTAUR APPEARS TO BE A
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KINGDOM AnimaliaPHYLUM VertebrataCL
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GANESHA ORIENTIS
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TODAY THERE ARE NO KNOWN SPECIES WI
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CANIS HADES
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CREATING THE PEGASUS WAS A MASSIVE
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BECAUSE OF THE CENTAUR ’S EXCEPTI
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HARPY ERINYES
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