Sketches of the history of medicine, ancient and modern ... / [Saunders].

  • Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.
Date:
1867
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    innocent, free from liability to pain, and possessed of unmixed capacity for the enjoyment of the pleasures that surrounded him; glowing with health, and with every emotion redolent of new delight. At sight of him, Each hill gave sign of gratulation, Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper’d it to the woods; and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub:— Apprehension of the miseries to which his progeny were doomed, would have marred this happiness ; hence his ignorance of evil, and his belief that the felicity he enjoyed would be as permanent as it was perfect. But our business is with man in his actual condition; the sport of “ All maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone, and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac plirensy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus and wide wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums, And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delayed to strike.” Undertaking to examine the subject ab initio, we must take into account the sources of our information, and as