Lives of Eminent Men of Aberdeen
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236 EMINENT MEN OF ABERDEEN.
respect, " seemed to doubt every thing which it was reasonable to believe, and to put faith in every thing that was against common sense. It is well known that he stoutly affirmed the doctrine, that the true way to cure wounds was to anoint, not the wound, but the sword that inflicted it ; and that he put his wife, Venetia Stanley, upon a regular diet of capons that had been fed upon vipers, as he had ascertained, by the light of science, that this was a certain met...hod of preserving female beauty to extreme old age.
The next writer with whom Ross entered the lists was Sir Thomas Browne ; whom he attacked in his " Medi- cus Medicatus, or the Physician's Religion Cured, " which appeared in 1645. This treatise, as the name may shew, was written to refute the " Religio Medici, " one of the most fascinating books which our language contains ; and which, amongst some strange vagaries of judgment, has as much profound philosophy and thorough Christian feeling in it as almost any volume that could be named, while it everywhere sparkles with passages of the most exquisite beauty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
236 EMINENT MEN OF ABERDEEN.
respect, " seemed to doubt every thing which it was reasonable to believe, and to put faith in every thing that was against common sense. It is well known that he stoutly affirmed the doctrine, that the true way to cure wounds was to anoint, not the wound, but the sword that inflicted it ; and that he put his wife, Venetia Stanley, upon a regular diet of capons that had been fed upon vipers, as he had ascertained, by the light of science, that this was a certain met...hod of preserving female beauty to extreme old age.
The next writer with whom Ross entered the lists was Sir Thomas Browne ; whom he attacked in his " Medi- cus Medicatus, or the Physician's Religion Cured, " which appeared in 1645. This treatise, as the name may shew, was written to refute the " Religio Medici, " one of the most fascinating books which our language contains ; and which, amongst some strange vagaries of judgment, has as much profound philosophy and thorough Christian feeling in it as almost any volume that could be named, while it everywhere sparkles with passages of the most exquisite beauty.
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