The American domestick medicine, or, Medical admonisher : containing some account of anatomy, the senses, diseases, casualties ; a dispensatory, and glossary ; in which the observations, and remedies, are adapted to the diseases, &c. of the United States ; designed for the use of families.

  • Horatio Gates Jameson
Date:
1818
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Credit: The American domestick medicine, or, Medical admonisher : containing some account of anatomy, the senses, diseases, casualties ; a dispensatory, and glossary ; in which the observations, and remedies, are adapted to the diseases, &c. of the United States ; designed for the use of families. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. THE design is from a picture in the possession of my brother, Dr. Jameson, of York, Pennsylvania. It re- presents the celebrated Galen, viewing a human skele- ton, of whom it is said that, Though an Atheist, he was a strict observer of nature, till by chance finding a skele- ton, he thought it of too curious a construction to be the work of chance. The vast and sudden expansion of his views of the Deity, in the following lines, while they agreeably surprise us, are a strong confirmation of the existence of a light, in the human capacities, which lighteth every man. Forbear, vain man, to launch with reason's eye, Through the vast depth of dark immensity; Nor think thy narrow, but, presumptuous mind, The least idea of thy God can find. Thought, crowding thought, distracts the laboring brain; For how can finite infinite explain? Then God adore, and conscious rest in this, None, but Himself, can paint him as He is.
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