‎BROWN (T.)‎
‎La religion du médecin, c'est-à-dire description nécessaire... (taduit du latin en français avec des remarques par Nicolas LE FEBRE -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎La Haye, 1668, un volume in 12 relié en plein parchemin à recouvrement, toutes tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque), 1 titre gravé, (11), 360pp.‎

Reference : 938

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- L'édition originale latine est extrémement rare ---- TRES BEL EMPLAIRE ---- Outre les remarques par Nicolas LE FEBVRE, cette traduction contient les notes de J. MERRY--WEATHER ---- Garrison N° 6612.90 (1st latin ed.) : "The most famous work of english literature written by a physician" ---- "Browne was not only a noted physician, but one of the great English writters and philosophers of the seventeenth century... His simple and concise essays were widely read, commented upon, and criticized. His book has deeply influenced many individuals and retains its appeal even today after three cenuries". (Heirs of Hippocrates N° 485 1st ed.) ---- "The Religio is not a defence of its author's calling, nor is it the expression of heterodox opinion : Browne's opinions were free from heresy and his book's title would be better translated as philosophy of faith than as religion. What he demands is the liberty to be guided by his own reason in cases where no exact guidance is laid down by Scripture or the teaching of the church. The book was a puzzle to his contemporaries ; it was published in Paris as the work of a Roman Catholic ; in Rome it was placed on the Index Expurgatorius... But it is not the matter only which makes the Religio Medici still so universally read. The combination of detachment from the world with fascination with its smallest physical objects, the style and the mind which both style and contents reveal, has absorbed the interest of readers of all kinds ever since its first appearance". (PMM N° 131 1st latin ed.) ---- DSB II - Norman N° 356 1st latin ed --- De la bénévolence aux pauvres - De la difficulté de s'accorder avec soi-même - De l'orgueil - Du sommeil et des songes - De l'avance, bénévolence et libéralité envers les pauvres - De l'amour de Dieu, des parents, de la femme et des enfants - etc**938/arb4‎