Genre:

Novel, Serial, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Hawthorne 1850

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Pharmaceuticals, Magic, Religion

    Describes the appearance of the terrifying 'SCARLET LETTER' on Dimmesdale's breast, during the minister's 'Election sermon'. Adds that many spectators believed Chillingworth, a 'potent necromancer', had caused the stigma to appear 'through the agency of magic and poisonous drugs'. (357) Notes that Chillingworth withered away 'immediately after' Dimmesdale's death and explains that the minister's death robbed the physician of the 'evil principle' which gave him life—exercising his systematic revenge on the minister (358).