Volume 1

Horae subsecivae / by John Brown.

  • Brown, John, 1810-1882.
Date:
1882
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Horae subsecivae / by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proposa I'em^tique combine avec un purgatif; et le troisifeme, un vesicatoire aux jambes. Le debat ne fut pas petit, et per- sonne ne voulut ce'der. J'aurois jur^ qu'ils avoient tous raison. Enfin, on aura peine a croire que par une suite de circonstan- ces inutiles i rapporter, cette dispute interessa cinq ou sbi nombreuses families, partagees comme les medecins, et qui pre- tendoient s'emparer du malade; elle dura, en un mot, jusques passe le septi^me de la maladie. Cependant, malgre les terribles menaces de mes trois maltres, le malade reduit a la boisson et a la di^te guerit tr6s-bien. Je suivis cette guenson parce que j'etois reste seul: je la trouvai tracee par I'ecole de Cos, et je m'ecriai, cVtoit done la route qu'il falloit prendre!' —Recherches sicr le Tism Muquetcx, I'jd'j. NOTE C—P. 86. THE WISDOM OF DOING NOTHING. The reader will mark the coincidence of thought, and even expression, between Locke and his friend :— ' I commend very much the discretion of Mrs. Furley, that she would not give him prcecipitates—1°. Because physick is not to be given to children upon every little disorder. 2°. Phy- sick for the worms is not to be given upon every bare suspi- cion that there may be worms. 3°. If it were evident that he had worms, such dangerous medicines are not to be given till after the use of other and more gentle and safe remedys. If he continue still dull and melancholy, the best way is to have him abroad to walke vidth you every day in the air; that, I believe, may set him right without any physic, at least if it should not, 'tis not fit to give him remedys till one has well examined what is the distemper, unless you think (as is usually doune), that at all hazard something is to be given; a way, I confess, I could never thinke reasonable, it being better in my opinion to doe no thing, than to dee amiss.'—Locke to Ftirley in Forster.