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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![on natural questions, directing them only to ascribe all hidden causes to God, in order to prevent superstition, and exalt early natu- ral religion. I think too that the use of those comparisons and ejaculatory gratula- tions recommended by St. Francis of Sales, of great benefit in inducing early piety and gaiety of mind. Children are now too much confined in schools: they should on the contrary be much abroad, storing their minds with the knowledge of Nature's va- ried train of animated beings; and this in- gathering of knowledge, combined with the habit I allude to, would make their thoughts at night, while they recollected the day, a sort of nosegay of divine asj)iratious—a mo- ral counterpart to the bouquets of flowers] which they gathered in their morning) rambles. All this would be operative onj age. For as the careful botanist lays up tha choicest plants in a hortus siccus, for mature study and arrangement, so does a child lay up, in the mystical folds of the memory, the.' blossoms of its early cropping, wherein they get matured, and their uses known and eX' tended. The images of these early percep-,) tions, reflected in the magical telescoj)e of. time, present to the mind of an old per-, son the most delightful pictures; they are indeed scenes in which the peculiar, colouring of the infant fancy is softened down by the sober tints of age, and which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21483565_0262.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
