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.

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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    also stand recorded in the calendar as the in- ventors of every useful art, and as persons who lived in peace with God and in charity to all men. They present, amidst the va- cillating opinions of philosophers, a suc- cessive company of sages who, in every age, have maintained unanimity on that side of the great question which is most dear to mor- tal man; they are the supporters of a system which improves our Mind, Body, and Estate, in conferring power, intellect, and serenity; in giving health, strength, and durability; and in providing for the temporary wants of every class and every variety of society, in the various foundations of churches, monasteries, hospitals, and literary institutions. At length, when the sinews of strength decay, when the Fates are ready to snap the strings of life, and all this vast scene is about to change, Hope, trampling on the head of the serpent who brought death into the world, stretches out her white hands, and invites us to new and incorruptible alliances with a higher order of the objects of sensation— O supernse civitatis mansio beatissima ! 0 dies aeter- nitatis clarissima, quara nox non obscurat, sed summa Veritas semper irradiat!