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fell into their original contempt . This I attribute to the Romans being unacquainted with the operation of medicine ; for , I am sorry to say , that they were little better than an ignorant people even in their most improved state ; the art of war being the only one that they understood . " Tu regere imperiopopulos , Romane memento" was the best characteristic encomium that the ' wittasteand geniusof Virgil could
, , , bestow on his countrymen . Again : . " Tollere nodosam nescii .. medicina podagram , " is another Horatian aphorism ; and can any thing be better expressed , or , in the general , be more true in observation ? . For if it be not true that , in the present improved state of medicine , the gout is absolutel y incurable , yet I believe you will allow that this is . a singularly critical malady , which
no judicious physician would ever attempt to cure ; and those daring empirics who make the attempt , if ever ' they do remove the gouty paroxisms ,, generally at the- same time remove their patients out of t ) iis troublesome world . .,.. Once more , read the following stanza— . Crescil indulgens sibi dirus hydrops ;
- ' Nec . sitim peilit , nisi causa , morbi : .. ' . JFugeril venis , et aquosus albo , . . Corpora languor . ; , ..., ' ,. 3 nd tell me if what the faculty call a Leucophlegmatia was evermore beautifully or more scientifically described ? Horace certainly improved himself much from the conversation of his-medical friend Musa . ' ' ' . '• ' ¦
Tipping Brown, M. D.
TIPPING BROWN , M . D .
P . S . G . WARDEN for the . County of DURHAM , and MASTER of the PHCENIX LODGE , SUNDERLAND .
Ingenuis iristructa soroninr Artibus Abnidum , et Phoebi-Bublimior cestu . FHESNOY de Arte . Graphics . V . 76 * THE chief aims of biography must be , either to interest by details of adventureto animate by the celebration of meritor to im ^
, , prove by the application cf example . . The respectable subject of the present sketch , from the nature of his studies and pursuits , offers no variety or vicissitude to come under the first of these-classes . With the other two he may very fairly rank . As an eminent Mason , scholar , and physician , he justly claims , a niche in the Temple of our Order ; and'in the suavity of his dispo-
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fell into their original contempt . This I attribute to the Romans being unacquainted with the operation of medicine ; for , I am sorry to say , that they were little better than an ignorant people even in their most improved state ; the art of war being the only one that they understood . " Tu regere imperiopopulos , Romane memento" was the best characteristic encomium that the ' wittasteand geniusof Virgil could
, , , bestow on his countrymen . Again : . " Tollere nodosam nescii .. medicina podagram , " is another Horatian aphorism ; and can any thing be better expressed , or , in the general , be more true in observation ? . For if it be not true that , in the present improved state of medicine , the gout is absolutel y incurable , yet I believe you will allow that this is . a singularly critical malady , which
no judicious physician would ever attempt to cure ; and those daring empirics who make the attempt , if ever ' they do remove the gouty paroxisms ,, generally at the- same time remove their patients out of t ) iis troublesome world . .,.. Once more , read the following stanza— . Crescil indulgens sibi dirus hydrops ;
- ' Nec . sitim peilit , nisi causa , morbi : .. ' . JFugeril venis , et aquosus albo , . . Corpora languor . ; , ..., ' ,. 3 nd tell me if what the faculty call a Leucophlegmatia was evermore beautifully or more scientifically described ? Horace certainly improved himself much from the conversation of his-medical friend Musa . ' ' ' . '• ' ¦
Tipping Brown, M. D.
TIPPING BROWN , M . D .
P . S . G . WARDEN for the . County of DURHAM , and MASTER of the PHCENIX LODGE , SUNDERLAND .
Ingenuis iristructa soroninr Artibus Abnidum , et Phoebi-Bublimior cestu . FHESNOY de Arte . Graphics . V . 76 * THE chief aims of biography must be , either to interest by details of adventureto animate by the celebration of meritor to im ^
, , prove by the application cf example . . The respectable subject of the present sketch , from the nature of his studies and pursuits , offers no variety or vicissitude to come under the first of these-classes . With the other two he may very fairly rank . As an eminent Mason , scholar , and physician , he justly claims , a niche in the Temple of our Order ; and'in the suavity of his dispo-