Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithA study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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13 FATHER AND SONS When Thomas Browne was knighted in 1671 , his eldest son , Edward , was beginning his own successful career as a physician . Born in time of civil war , Edward reached maturity in the changing era of the Restoration ...
13 FATHER AND SONS When Thomas Browne was knighted in 1671 , his eldest son , Edward , was beginning his own successful career as a physician . Born in time of civil war , Edward reached maturity in the changing era of the Restoration ...
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Three letters in succession from his father in 1671 concern specific patients for whom the father suggests prescriptions in the light of his analysis of their illness . Sir Thomas criticized Edward's lectures for Chirurgeon's Hall and ...
Three letters in succession from his father in 1671 concern specific patients for whom the father suggests prescriptions in the light of his analysis of their illness . Sir Thomas criticized Edward's lectures for Chirurgeon's Hall and ...
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He could be justly proud of Edward , who was to outlive his father , dying in 1708 at his estate at Northfleet , Kent ; and we know that Sir Thomas cherished the memory of Honest Tom's brief and splendid life . Of the remaining children ...
He could be justly proud of Edward , who was to outlive his father , dying in 1708 at his estate at Northfleet , Kent ; and we know that Sir Thomas cherished the memory of Honest Tom's brief and splendid life . Of the remaining children ...
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Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 3 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith Issue 16 of Life of science library |
| Author | Jeremiah Stanton Finch |
| Publisher | Schuman, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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