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The Thymus Gland - Origin of its Name
"At one point in the Iliad, Achilles says: 'Waking like smoke in the breasts of men, even as Agamemnon angered me, but we will let bygones be bygones, quieting the thymos in our breasts.' Thus, thymos was metaphorically a rising of smoke in the breast, as its Indo-European roots imply." (Diamond, M.D., page 129)
"Although thymus comes from the Greek word thymos, its roots go deeper. Tracing it back beyond the world of Socrates and Plato, we find that thymos is from the Indo-European root dheu, which is the base of a wide variety of derivatives meaning 'to rise into flames,' 'to rise in a cloud,' 'to smoke.' In Sanskrit the word was dhuma, from which come 'fume' and 'perfume'." (Diamond, M.D., page 128)
"Interestingly enough, the word thymus is derived from the Greek thymos...which is untranslatable into modern terms but denoted life force, soul, and feeling or sensibility. As Onians points out, thymos originally referred to the breath. It was the stuff of consciousness, the spirit, the breath-soul, upon which depended a man's energy and courage. Even the earliest origins of the word implied rising into flames, as a cloud, spirit, which relate it to the concept of soul and Life Energy." (Diamond, M.D., page 29)
"L., from G, thymos, thyme: so called because shaped like the thyme flower." (Webster's Dictionary, page 1,906)
"...thyme derives its Latin name from the plant's serpentlike growth. Pliny recommends it as an antidote for snakebites..." (Ody, page 104)
"In the second century, Galen gave the name thymus to the pinkish-gray two-lobed organ in the chest because, it is said, it reminded him of a bunch of thyme." (Diamond, M.D., page 129)
"But the thyme plant itself was so named because it was burned as incense to the gods. Indeed, the altarlike elevation in the center of the orchestra of a Greek theater was called the thymele, and sacrificial incense was placed in the thymiaterion, or censer. Thymos, then, was a rising of smoke, a burning of incense, a sacrificing up to the gods--all taking place in the chest, the inner altar. It was aspiration, songs of praise, spirit, and the putting out of love. It was the breath-soul, on which depended a man's energy and courage." (Diamond, M.D., page 129)
"...the thymus...this vital organ." (Weston, M.D., page 99)
"the thymus of an animal, when used as food, is called sweetbread..." (Webster's Dictionary, page 1,906)
"The thymus gland...is present in all mammals, and is called the sweetbread in calves." (Diamond, M.D., page
