Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS. xiu fanaticism; let him seek for his remedy in the wide expanse of animated nature, or un- der the lofty canopy of the starry sky when bespangled with millions of suns and of systems bigger than our own, and probably inhabited; and he will find it impossible to entertain limited and uncharitable notions of the Creator. Meanwhile, let us not be deterred from inquiring what system is best adapted to the nature and imperfections of man ; and when we have found it, let us not discard it, merely because the hieroglyphics of its ritual are unintelligible to those who have neither the knowledge nor the industry requisite to unfold them. I believe the ancient sanatory and sa- lutary rules of the catholic religion to be the best adapted for this purpose, and to be an improvement both on the laws of the ancient Jews and on the works of the Grecian philosophers in this respect; but in submitting this opinion to the public, I pro- fess myself open to arguments which may be brought against it, and ready always to abide by the best testimony we can get to the truth. I can have no prejudice on the subject, for I was neither born nor bred a