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Trephine 1760

Trephine 1760

For drilling holes in the head. From about the time of the American Revolution. Not a good period for brain surgery, but we do what we can in each era with the tools we have.


Fact-Finding

Fact-Finding

A good plan for your legacy and your life starts with good fact-finding. Prescription before Diagnosis is Malpractice. It is best to put yourself in your Advisor's hands. Your Professional Advisors know what is best for you.


Recovery Room

Recovery Room

The logical order for treatment is: Confession, Contrition, Forgiveness, Penance, Atonement, followed by a life of virtue. Sometimes for nonconsensual morals tutorial clients, the Penance comes first and must be repeated until the resistance to a moral cure has been broken. Here is the Wealth Bondage Recovery Room where clients pause to regain consciousness between treatments.


Electroshock

Electroshock

Stimulates the frontal cortex and can reawaken a conscience dulled by legal or business training. Helpful in opening clients to a more spiritual life.


The Chair

The Chair

For evil doers only. A last resort. We prefer never to use it. But for the law and order types, scenes staged here can be very arousing of their higher impulses.


Straightjacket

Straightjacket

A Morals Tutorial Client begins his Journey from Success to Significance in his own mind. (Napoleon complex, but curable.)


Bone Saw 1851

Bone Saw 1851

Better to lose the finger or the arm than the have the gangrene spread throughout the body or the body politic.

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Pharmakon

Pharmakon

As readers of Derrida know, in Greek a Pharmakon was both medicine and poison, a kind of brutal homeopathic cure. So too is satire. It will cure you if it does not kill you first. A kind of aleopathic chemo-therapy for the body politic.


Clyster, 19th Century

Clyster, 19th Century

Removes toxins from the body politic. Can also be used as a bellows for inspired preachers. (Sorry, that is an old joke upon enthusiastic preachers, from Dean Jonathan Swift, the greatest Master of our Noble Trade.) As a preacher himself, I guess he is allowed to satirize same.


Forceps

Forceps

Socrates described himself as "the midwife" to his fellow citizen's soul. Given that most of his interlocutors were men, he must have had in mind the expression on the man's face as he labored to give birth to himself. I also enjoy that look - eye's popped wide, face sweating, groans. How else, though, can we bring to life what is best in us?