Letter P

Pneuma

The life-giving principle.

According to the school of medicine in ancient Alexandria, life was associated with a vapor called the pneuma.

The belief in pneuma was called pneumatism.

In hindsight, pneumatism was an early attempt to explain respiration which is, indeed, the life-giving principle

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