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So the Greek word pneuma, also translated “spirit,” means precisely the same thing.

More than fifteen centuries elapsed before this pneuma—oxygen—was discovered by Lavoisier.

Aer may be explained, oti airei ta apo tes ges; or, oti aei rei; or, oti pneuma ex autou ginetai (compare the poetic word aetai).

The pneuma and the juice concentrate the power of the plant below so that it becomes denser.

He is a man, but a spiritual man, one in whom spirit or pneuma was the essential principle, so that he was spirit as well as man.

Apparently Galen refers to the pneuma and the various humours.

"Psyche" was in the breast; "Pneuma" was spread throughout the body; and "Nous" was in the head.

The question was sure to arise, Whence came this pneuma or spiritual quality?

These vessels in the lungs, "through mutual contact" with the branches of the trachea, took in the pneuma.

Material pneuma is destined to high functions; and man is to read by gas-light.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985