Religio Medici Author:Browne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES THE FIRST PART Page 1. Section 1. the general scandal: the ill repute in which his profession is held. Two out of every three, according to Keck, ... more »were regarded as atheists. Hence the proverb, Ubi ires medici, duo athei. In describing the "Doctour of Phisyk," Chaucer (Prologue, 438) says: "His studie was but litel on the Bible." Browne, in an extract from his Commonplace Books (Bohn, in. 364), writes: "Though in point of devotion and piety, physicians do meet with common obloquy, yet in the Roman calendar we find no less than twenty-nine saints and martyrs of that profession." indifferency: impartiality, absence of bias—now rare in this sense. As regards the form of the word, English possesses a considerable number of pairs in -ce and -cy, some with a difference of meaning, some without; as brilliance, brilliancy; coherence, coherency; consistence, consistency; dependence, dependency; emergence, emergency. despight. This spelling, which arose under the influence of right, sight and similar forms, was common from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. clime: region, country, as on p. 2; but on pp. 4 and 99, the word means "climate." f. Understanding. The 1682 edition omits the adjective unwary (i.e. heedless, unsuspicious, susceptible) found in earlier editions. no other Name but this: i.e. the name of Christian. In negative and interrogative sentences, a comparative was formerly followed by but. Than is now the usual construction; or the comparative is dropped and but retained. Compare Shakespeare, Macbeth, v. viii. 41 sqq.: "The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd,... But like a man he died"; Hamlet, I. i. 108: " I think it be no other but e'en so." the general Charity: love of my fellow-men. Stile...Title: i.e. Christian. ...« less