Discourse on the importance of the study of physiology as a branch of popular education / [John Fletcher].

  • John Fletcher
Date:
1836
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Credit: Discourse on the importance of the study of physiology as a branch of popular education / [John Fletcher]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tect the bare-faced attempts at imposition of the latter; and this very little accordingly, so far from being a dan¬ gerous thing, may be the saving of their lives. And such knowledge is rapidly spreading over society. The age of farce is almost gone—the mist of delusion is fading away. The days of the necromancers, exorcists, and wizards,—of the powder of sympathy, the electuary of the three devils, the plaster of the hand of God, the elixir of life, the immortal Catholicon, and nume¬ rous other infallible remedies of former times, have long been past. Let us hope that those also of the Hohen- ioes and St John Longs,—of the balm of Gilead, the real blessing to mothers, and Morrison’s pills, are already numbered ; and that one advantage of the progress of science will be, that people in all time coming will be allowed to live without groundless apprehensions, and to die at last a natural and peaceful death. i
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