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#91

Philosophy / Re: Metaphysics of Gender: A T...

Last post by Geremia - October 15, 2023, 10:04:44 PM

• Finley, John. "The Metaphysics of Gender: A Thomistic Approach." The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 79, no. 4 (2015): 585–614.
• Newton, William. "Why Aquinas's Metaphysics of Gender Is Fundamentally Correct: A Response to John Finley." The Linacre Quarterly 87, no. 2 (May 2020): 198–205.

[Is embryectomy still the proper medical term for the treatment of any type of ectopic pregnancy, or is a different term used?]

#92

General Discussion / Is the treatment of any type o...

Last post by Geremia - October 08, 2023, 04:10:13 PM

Here's the current state of my new, edited question:

The generic term for the treatment of an ectopic pregnancy seems to be "embryectomy":

^{ἐκ (ek, "out") + τέμνω (témnō, "to cut")}

Stedman, Practical Medical Dictionary (1916), p. 302 calls embryectomy

The operative removal of the product of conception, especially in ectopic pregnancy.

However, I do not see this term used in recent medical literature. A Google Ngram search reveals:

"Salpingectomy" is much more common (embryectomy, salpingectomy Ngram):

Is embryectomy still the proper medical term for the treatment of any type of ectopic pregnancy, or is a different term used?
^{Note: I'm interested in the generic term covering all types of ectopic (extra-uterine) pregnancies, not just those that occur in the Fallopian tube.
If it is a tubal ectopic pregnancy, a salpingectomy is done, and this term is in current use in more modern medical books:}

^{From salping- ("of or relating to the salpinx [Fallopian tube]") +‎ -ectomy ("surgical removal")}

^{which involves a simultaneous embryectomy.
Cf. the etymology of "ectopic":}

^{ἐκ (ek, "out") + -topic τόπος (tópos, "place")}

[embryectomy]

#93

General Discussion / Re: What is the treatment of a...

Last post by Geremia - October 08, 2023, 12:05:18 AM

Question:

What is the treatment of an ectopic pregnancy called?
^{Note: I'm interested in the generic term covering all types of ectopic (extra-uterine) pregnancies, not just those that occur in the Fallopian tube.}

Answer:

The generic term is "embryectomy".
^{"-ectomy" means "to cut out" or "excise" (cf. "-otomy", which means "to cut up into pieces"):}

^{ἐκ (ek, "out") + τέμνω (témnō, "to cut")}

If it is a tubal ectopic pregnancy, a salpingectomy is done:

From salping- ("of or relating to the salpinx [Fallopian tube]") +‎ -ectomy ("surgical removal")

which involves a simultaneous embryectomy.
^{Cf. the etymology of "ectopic":}

^{ἐκ (ek, "out") + -topic τόπος (tópos, "place")}

#94

General Discussion / What is the treatment of an ec...

Last post by Geremia - October 04, 2023, 05:15:45 PM

I asked the Medical Science StackExchange question "What is the treatment of an ectopic pregnancy called?" and it was promptly closed:



Maybe someone here can answer my question.

Sapingotomy / salpingectomy are specific to tubal pregnancies, but there are other types of extra-uterine (ectopic) pregnancies, as Bouscaren, S.J. notes, so it would seem there is a more general term.

Another strange thing is that Medical Sciences StackExchange's bot flags posts with links to isidore.co (inter alia). Most StackExchange sites don't do this.

#95

Anti-Modernism / Re: U.S.'s Judeo-Masonic, Fren...

Last post by Paul_D - September 27, 2023, 07:00:33 PM

I am afraid one of the conclusions Hanby has made in his article is true of many American Catholics, even within the SSPX (and Fr. Hunter is one of them, at least, IMHO):

This is why Lockean liberalism—with the mechanical world it presupposes and the Baconian world it sets in motion—more perfectly realizes Hobbes' absolutist ambitions than Hobbes himself does. Why repress the Church when you can entice Catholics to think like Protestants, or even like atheists, without knowing it?

They all think that because America was very prosperous and the Church in the US gaining converts greater than anywhere else in the period before Vatican II shows how great America is, when in fact the period after Vatican II showed how shallow that faith was. They also ignore very inconvenient truths, such as the continued persecution of the Church after the US' founding, and the attempt to attack Canada in 1812 to try to force liberty there against Catholics (which failed).

#96

Anti-Modernism / Re: U.S.'s Judeo-Masonic, Fren...

Last post by Paul_D - September 27, 2023, 06:47:18 PM

Also, I find this excerpt from Hanby pretty telling from the article I linked:

I have always understood the thought of the Founders as a complex amalgam of Protestant Christianity, Scottish Enlightenment moral philosophy, Baconian and Newtonian natural philosophy, and the Renaissance tradition of civic humanism. It is hardly an accident that we have a senate and a capitol, or that the young nation filled its new Rome along the banks of the Potomac with Greek and Roman temples. Nor is it an accident that the Founders did not build in Gothic; this fact alone ought to call into question Reilly's inordinate stress on the medieval Christian origins of the American Founding. "If any one cultural source lay behind the republican revolutions of the eighteenth century," Gordon Wood writes, "it was ancient Rome—republican Rome—and the values that flowed from its history."[38] If anything, Reilly's account of the Founding's Christian, natural law origins understates the Founders' neo-classicism in forming their republican imagination. The warnings of of Cicero, Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus against the corrosive effects of luxury and decadence fueled the Founders' own suspicions of the corrupting effects of "interest"—defined, in Madison's words, as "the immediate augmentation of property and wealth."[39] Roman history would also provide the archetypes after which they patterned themselves: Cato, sacrificing his life for his country; Cincinnatus, laying aside his commission to return to his farm.[40] Jefferson hoped, rather romantically, that the yeoman farmers he imagined would populate his empire of liberty would be such high-minded, disinterested men." " 'Ours,' he informed Crevecoeur in 1787, 'are the only farmers who can read Homer.' "[41] Though the radical liberty advanced by Jefferson and Thomas Paine would contribute to the dissolution of this republican vision even within the Founders' lifetimes, in their minds it also served as the precondition for any possible realization of that disinterested ideal.[42] " 'Interest,' many of them said, 'is the greatest tie man one man can have on another' ";[43] by contrast, the "classical ideal of disinterestedness was based on independence and liberty. Only autonomous individuals, free of interested ties and paid by no masters, were capable of such virtue."[44] The demise of this neoclassical vision and the dramatic transformation of the new nation into "a scrambling business society dominated by the pecuniary interests of ordinary people" prior even to the adoption of the Constitution, raises the enduring question of whether the Founders' republican ideal could survive the corrosive effects of Lockean liberty and its metaphysical underpinnings.[45] That it has not survived is beyond debate.

And this, too:

Ben Franklin's Autobiography would've done, or Jefferson's Bible, which he hoped would "prepare the euthanasia for Platonic Christianity."[49] Apparently, Jefferson forgot that "Nature's God" "reveals himself as the divine Logos."

In extracting the pure principles which [Jesus] taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to them. We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites, and the Gamelielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their Logos and Demi-urgos, Aeons and Daemons male and female with a long train of Etc. Etc. Etc. or, shall I say at once, of Nonsense.[50]

#97

Anti-Modernism / Re: U.S.'s Judeo-Masonic, Fren...

Last post by Paul_D - September 27, 2023, 06:37:06 PM

I think some one else did in a post concerning this, defending Fr. Hunter's viewpoint.

Who is this "some one [sic] else"?

I saw in a SSPX supporter blog post that he recommended Robert O'Reilly's book "America on Trial" for defending the "Catholic" founding of America here and Locke as well: https://aaambrosetti.wordpress.com/2021/07/30/does-god-really-hate-the-first-amendment/#comments

#98

Anti-Modernism / Re: U.S.'s Judeo-Masonic, Fren...

Last post by Geremia - September 27, 2023, 05:25:46 PM

I think some one else did in a post concerning this, defending Fr. Hunter's viewpoint.

Who is this "some one [sic] else"?

#99

Anti-Modernism / Re: U.S.'s Judeo-Masonic, Fren...

Last post by Paul_D - September 27, 2023, 03:48:00 PM

My mistake, I think some one else did in a post concerning this, defending Fr. Hunter's viewpoint.

#100

Anti-Modernism / Re: U.S.'s Judeo-Masonic, Fren...

Last post by Geremia - September 26, 2023, 10:02:51 PM

Fr. Hunter is still defending the Founding Fathers as using Catholic principles, even using Robert O'Reilly's America on Trial (Ignatius Press, 2020) as proof.

Where does Fr. Hunter cite Robert O'Reilly?
(He does cite Alfred O'Rahilly.)