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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    tion detract, as shortsighted philosophers pretend, from the beautiful harmony which seems to reign through the creation. All animals are endowed with propensities adapted, by means of organs, for their pecu- liar wants and the rank which they are des- tined to hold in the scale of animated beings. That man, therefore, should not be wanting in the knowledge of that which will fit him also for his peculiar functions, duties, and destination, seems necessary to the con- sistency and harmony of the creation. All power and all knowledge imparted to crea- tures must emanate from the Creator ; and what may only be called instinct, in the ani- mal, may be designated by the word revela- tion, when applied to the more sublime conceptions of the human understanding. Phrenology has proved that the brain of man, and of other animals, is composed of a plurality of organs, each having a separate function. When any of these organs are of great size and activity, the consequence is that the animal possesses the instinctive genius which belongs thereto, in a high de- gree. But man has a superior order of organs, and consequently of sentiments,