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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    process of dissolution, which is the gene- ral doom of all animated beings. From this consideration has arisen another evil of still greater magnitude, in the progress of society; for the love of life, which is the more intense when sensations are the more delightful, renders the certain forecast of death, at that very time, the most painful drawback to positive pleasure, and tinges with a melancholy, often amounting to dis- ease, some of the brightest conceptions of earthly happiness. It may easily be ima- gined that, meditating on this short and uncertain condition of life, men of profound and reflecting minds would extend their quest after happiness into regions more re- mote, and proceeding from physical to me- taphysical researches, would inquire whether an individual being, possessed of the con- sciousness of sensation, when once created, could ever cease ; or in other words, whether the mind might not retain its personal iden- tity and capacity for sensation, in another state of existence, after the extinction of the living principle should have severed it from its earthly connexions ? For as life would seem to be a distinct property, conferred on