Remarks on fasting and on the discipline of the body : in a letter to a clergyman / by a physician.

  • Physician
Date:
1848
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Credit: Remarks on fasting and on the discipline of the body : in a letter to a clergyman / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > has furnished me with instances of this, which have been of a painful kind. On this account I have ventured to make the suggestions contained in the foregoing pages; founding them upon the improved knowledge which the light of modern science has afforded. That some of these suggestions differ from precepts received in a part of the Church, I admit: but as these precepts were given at a period of com¬ parative ignorance in matters of science, and for a climate to which a different mode of living is suited from that necessary for our cold and variable cli¬ mate, I humbly think and believe that there is nothing in my suggestions which can be distasteful to the most Catholic-minded amongst us. It is our lot to hold our treasure in earthen vessels: surely it becomes us to pay close attention to the state and condition of those receptacles which are not only the conservatories of our spirits here— and in which the Holy Ghost deigns to dwell—but f which are destined to be fashioned like unto the ; v < ■; glorious body of our Blessed Saviour, and to dwell in his presence for ever. /■ *' •** • ,' '• K t Believe me, My dear friend, Yours very faithfully, London, June, 1848. 1 ■ • Gilbert & Rivington, Printers, St. John’s Square, London.
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