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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![that his numerous correspondents and his extensive practice kept him very busily employed. And so the years passed, filled with stirring and eventful incidents, and yet without calling forth any comment from this extraordinary man ; the struggles of his countrymen for liberty seeming dwarfed into insignificance compared with his philosophic communings with the mighty dead. In 1656, Joseph Hall, then Bishop of Norwich, died. Dr. Browne, his faithful phj'sician and loving friend for many years, attended the bishop in his last illness. At this time wo find Browne corresponding with Evelyn and Dugdale, and very shortly after, in 1658—the year of Cromwell's death— Hydriotaphia, his most characteristic work, appeared. It is in this work that the sombre and majestic grandeur of his style finds its most marked expression. The Garden of Cyrus, published the same year, shows a minute knowledge of ])otany, conjoined with a strange mix- ture of mysticism. To find everything](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650374_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


