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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    the corporeal fabric of the body, so the mind should seem to be something superadded to vitality. The continued identity, then, of the mind after the body be dissolved, has been called the soul. The desire to live, and the aversion to death, may account for the eager- ness with which this doctrine may have been embraced, and for its almost universal adop- tion, under some form or other, among all the nations of the world. The very recol- lection, too, that what has been may be again, and that therefore the life of every individual, having once been, may by the concourse of atoms, in the lapse of ages, be restored, proves that the anticipations of future life are not divested of the support of natural probability. This probability is in- creased rather than diminished, in propor- tion as we extend our metaphysical re- searches into the proofs of a Final Cause, as the aboriginal and uncreated source of all that diversified catenation of reciprocal causes and effects which the surrounding universe presents to our senses. But after all, it seems to be more probable that knowledge of a future state was originally impressed on the mind of man by God ; nor does this no-