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The art of invigorating and prolonging life ... and peptic precepts ... / By the author of 'The cook's oracle' [i.e. W. Kitchiner] To which is added the pleasure of making a will.

  • William Kitchiner
Date:
1822
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of invigorating and prolonging life ... and peptic precepts ... / By the author of 'The cook's oracle' [i.e. W. Kitchiner] To which is added the pleasure of making a will. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Philosopher’s Stone, they have vainly hoped, that Panaceas might be found pos- sessing the power of curing “all the evils that flesh is heir to.” This is evident enough to all who have examined the early Pharmacopeeias, which are full of heterogeneous compounds, the in- ventions of interested, and the imaginations of ignorant men. The liberal and enlightened Physicians of - the last and present century have gradually expunged most of these, and made the science of Medicine sufficiently intelligible to those whose business it is to learn it—if Medicine be entirely divested of its Mystery, its power over the Mind, which in most cases forms its main strength, will no longer exist. It was a favourite remark of the cele- brated Dr. John Brown%, that “ if a student in Physic employed seven years in storing * See the 338th aphorism in Covuxton’s Lacon. 1820. 5th Edition.
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