Medicine

Religio Medici

by Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne, a physician in Norwich, wrote The Religion of a Doctor for himself in his early thirties, and it was printed without his leave in 1642. Hydriotaphia, bound here with it, begins with some burial urns dug up in a Norfolk field and becomes a meditation on death and on being remembered. Few doctors have written English prose as fine.

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #586. In the public domain in the United States.