Hints for health : being two lectures on the influence of air, water, food, and wine on the system / by J. Sherwood Stocker.

  • Stocker, John Sherwood.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Hints for health : being two lectures on the influence of air, water, food, and wine on the system / by J. Sherwood Stocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    The medical profession are now quite alive to the necessity and importance of preventing disease as well as of attempting to cure it; and rarely can the remark made in the Cyropoedia of Xenophon be applied to medical men of the present day, that Physicians who only treat the sick are compared to menders of old clothes, while the preservation of health is declared a noble work worthy of Cyrus himself. The true Physician takes now for his rule of conduct the words of Lord Bacon, And this we hope might redound to a general good, if Physicians would but exert themselves and raise their minds above the sordid considerations of cure; not deriving their honours from the necessities of mankind but becoming ministers of the Divine power and goodness both in prolonging and restoring the life of many, especially as this may be effected by safe, commodious, and not illiberal means; though heretofore unattempted, and certainly it would be an earnest of Divine favour if while we are journeying to the land of promise, our garments, those frail bodies of ours, were not greatly to wear out in the vsdlderness of this world.