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Medica sacra; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings / [Thomas Shapter].

  • Thomas Shapter
Date:
1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medica sacra; or, short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings / [Thomas Shapter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but also many of those morbid conditions to which the infirmity of human nature renders the body susceptible. Independently of all religious consider- ations, the investigation of these matters presents many circumstances of consider- able interest, especially as shewing the height to which the knowledge of the phe- nomena attending the physical changes in man had arrived in early times, and the accuracy with which the various. obser- vations, opinions, and remarks relating to them, are recorded. From infancy to old age, the different conditions of life are beautifully described. The incapabilities of infancy and youth could not be more strongly pointed out to the reasoning and inferential mind of man, than it is in the account rendered to us of the making of the first inhabitant of earth, wherein we are told that the breath of life
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