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...richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their animal pictures under glass for the public. Daniels and St. Jeromes fondled lions in their dens, St. Georges slew dragons by the lanceful; behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes...
...burned the flesh over the afflicted joints, kept the ulcers open to drain off the humors. Other doctors worked on the principle of "no movement, no pain." They carved stone foot casts, not unlike modern plaster casts, into which patients thrust their aching feet. Paul placed great faith in "dragon's blood," but of course, he remarked, it "is difficult to procure...
...matter of fact, it was the gift of Fred Sze '18, President of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, who presented it to the University during the Tercentenary Celebration. The presentation was made on behalf of the Harvard alumni in China. The dragon-headed tortoise which supports the vertical stone occupies a very important but seemingly vague place in Chinese mythology. Sometimes it has been used as a cosmic emblem and sometimes as a symbol of uncleanliness, lack of chastity. Standing, as it does, between Boylston and Widener, it can hardly symbolize the latter. The inscription on the stone tablet...
...reminded that in World War I he nicked the plane of the great German Ace Immelmann with a rifle; that in 1917 he went out five times a night to bomb and once engaged no less than five enemy planes at a time. He was, in short, a very dragon-killer...
...FRANK DRAGON...