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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    INTRODUCTORY ANALYSIS. In every age of the world, the love of life has prompted philosophers to seek the means of its prolongation and the best remedies against its premature decay, and has led to those various systems of physiology by which it is pretended to explain the source of the vital principle, the structure and uses of its organs, and the nature of the mysterious re- lation between the percipient mind and the material world, of which the living senso- , rium is the medium. The solicitude about the security of life, so natural to man, is increased by civilization, owing to the number of new accidents and diseases that arise out of the circumstances of artificial society. And the science of medicine, promising relief from the sudden effects of casualty, and remedies against the ravages of disease, has at all times been considered as in the highest degree fit for the study of the learned, and worthy of the patronage and protection of government.