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.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
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.

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    great conservative rules which the churcl has embodied as a whole. I do not find tha they can be much improved on, though phy- siology will amplify and explain them; an4 J therefore, if an individual of my humble 11 pretensions may hope to counsel mankind'I with success, I should say that in admo- nishing those who direct the affairs of edu- cation to maintain intact all the regulations of ancient wisdom, I am conferring a last- ing benefit on posterity. The result of all my enquiries into the subject of health and longevity has been as follows:—On an average, Catholics live longer than Protestants, and enjoy better health ; the greatest instances of longevity have been among the Hermits, Pilgrims, Carmelites, and the more severe monastic orders, particularly those who live on vege- table food, avoid spirituous liquors, and have >ie been much out of doors. That this scanty f diet has also contributed towards the calm i In and resigned mode of death for which Ca- ■ I tholics are so distinguished, is beyond doubt. ; a§ For they go out like a candle, whose visible i at flame is gradually extinct, while the re- • ol maining particles ascend in fumes towards t h] Heaven. er >iii u Cl