Medical tracts ... / By Benjamin Moseley.

  • Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819.
Date:
1800
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical tracts ... / By Benjamin Moseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

    286/292 (page 276)
    Bacon founded thefe opinions from the hiftones he had collected of the longevity 0f abftemious fecluded monks, hermits, and an- chorites ; men who wifhed to live for ever.— He was unacquainted with the truth of his theory, in folitary cells, for the extinction of humanity. He was himfelf fo organifed, as to be ftrongly attached to life. He wanted « length of days;—and had no idea that it is within the fcope of nature to wifh, and yet to be unable, to die. To count the painful hours, with increafe of mifery, unlefs favoured by the vifitation of idiotifm, or infanity, and to Ianguilh for the arrival of the liberating hand of death. Printer! by John Nichols, Red Liori'PaJfage^ Fleet-Street., London.