One entrance into life.

نویسنده

  • J. E. Morrison
چکیده

OVER three-hundred and thirty years ago, just when England was about to be rent apart by the Civil War, Thomas Browne, a student of Padua and Montpellier and a Doctor of Medicine of both Leiden and Oxford, wrote Religio Medici. This contributed little to religion, but in the stately prose of a bygone age ranged far and wide with protestations of piety and a gentle irony. One of the best known passages is where he writes " . . . . and every man is some months older than he bethink him, for we live, have a being, and are subject to the action of the elements, and the malice of disease, in that other world, the truest microcosm, the womb of our mother". Tonight I would like to consider a few of the ways by which "the action of the elements and the malice of disease" may affect a man, be he future king or future beggar, before he is born and again while he is making the first adjustments to breathe air, that breath of life which in primitive animistic thought represented the beginning of his life.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Ulster Medical Journal

دوره 44  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1975