Locke and Sydenham : with other occasional papers / by John Brown.

  • John Brown
Date:
1858
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Credit: Locke and Sydenham : with other occasional papers / by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We repeat that our Gideon Grays are, as a clafs, worthy and intelligent, Ikilful and fafe, doing much more good than evil.^ They de- ferve well of, and live in the hearts of the people, and work day and night for lefs than anybody but themfelves and their wives are likely ever to know, for they are moft of them unknown to the Income-tax colleAors. They are like the reft of us, we hope, foberer, better read, more en- lightened, than they were fifty years ago ; they ftudy and truft Nature more, and conquer her by fubmiflion; they bleed and blifter lefs, and are more up to the doftrine that prevention is the beft of all cures. They have participated in the general acknowledgment among the com- munity, thanks to the two Combes and others, and to the fpirit of the age, of thofe divine laws of health which He who made us implanted in us, and the ftudy and obedience of which is a fulfilling of His word. We can only hope that our clever and pancratic friend “ F. M.,” if on his autumn holidays in Teviotdale or Lochaber, he has his fhoulder or his lower jaw diflocated, or has a fit of colic or a hernia, or any of thofe ills which even his robuft felf is heir to, may have fenfe left him to fend for Gideon Gray, and to truft him, and, making a flight alteration ^ Note, page 452.