Religio medici and other essays / by Sir Thomas Browne ; edited, with an introduction, by D. Lloyd Roberts.
- Thomas Browne
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Religio medici and other essays / by Sir Thomas Browne ; edited, with an introduction, by D. Lloyd Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![It is, of course, open to dispute that Dr. B. of Norwich may not be Dr. Browne of Norwich, but the use of the epithet great removes, we think, all reasonable doubt on the subject. Although Dr. Browne's literary reputa- tion was now established, he did not escape attack, his most persistent opponent being one Alexander Ross, who had attacked the Religio Medici in a work entitled Medicus Medicatus, which achieved the reward, according to Dr. Johnson, of being univers- ally neglected by the world. The Pseudo- doxia Epidemica called from the same source another attack, entitled Arcana Microcosmi. But these and similar attacks have loi]g reached an oblivion that would be complete were it not for the fame of the works that stirred spiteful and puny pens into motion. By this time the fame of Dr. Browne was so well established that his advice was sought on all sides, not only on pro- fessional, but on literary, antiquarian, and scientific subjects; and there is no doubt](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650374_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
