The history of the plague of Athens : translated from Thucydides : with remarks explanatory of its pathology / by Charles Collier.

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1857
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Credit: The history of the plague of Athens : translated from Thucydides : with remarks explanatory of its pathology / by Charles Collier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken as examples), does the knowledge of the brain and nerves confer npon this genera- tion which was denied to that of Hippocrates, when the sentient system was yet unknown ] And does not every epidemic point the same way, and shew that medicine is but a frail barrier against any disease of nature's mis- sion 1 Again, the tendency of an epidemic, as of every wTide-spread calamity, the earthquake, flood, or tornado, is to call up propensities* * Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Force maketh nature more violent in the return, doctrine and discoursemaketh nature less importune, but custom only doth alter and subdue nature.—Bacon's Essay of Nature in Men. Which emphatic words seem to imply that it is only by the formation of pious and virtuous habits, through early and judicious training and instruction, that, in social life, the tendencies of individuals can be directed, undeviatingly, and under all circum- stances, towards that which is humane, improving, and self-denying—towards, that is, their allotted standard of perfection.