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.

  • Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
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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    y sackcloth and ashes, hair shirts, and vo- ntary privations ; by means of which they ave fitted the body for those elevated sen- ments of the mind, which have led to reat and heroic actions; while schismatics om Christianity have been lured away by ist, like the faithless among the Jews of d; and that there is much resemblance stween those apostates, who panted for the necures procured by the sacrilegious ])lun 3r of King Henry VITI., and the stray leep of the house of Israel, who longed ter the flesh pots of Egypt. From the diflerent manner in which the veral professions are educated, indepen- ;ntly of the varieties in the natural orga- zation of minds, it may readily be expected at dissimilar views will be taken of the me subject. I view religious institutions a philosopher and physiologist, not as a vine. I see in the wise institutions of itholicity, a source of human improve- ?nt, and of popular protection against i-anny, and above all, an ample provision ainst disease both mental and bodily. In inastic institutions, a check to population afforded ot the purest kind, and one i.iich is strangely contrasted to those fear- ■il sources of depopulation recommended a' parson Mai thus. And it is a fact illus- ntive of the inconsistency and cruelty of otestant i)aradoxes, that those who con-