Volume 2

Hermippus redivivus: or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including, a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed ... The whole interspersed with a great variety of ... well-attested relations / [Johann Heinrich Cohausen].

  • Cohausen, Johann Heinrich, 1665-1750
Date:
1749
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Credit: Hermippus redivivus: or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including, a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed ... The whole interspersed with a great variety of ... well-attested relations / [Johann Heinrich Cohausen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    good; if therefore, upon throughly fifting this dif- pute, the matter (hould come at laft to be in equi- librio, I hope the turn of the fcales will be allowed me *, for furely, if fenfe be preferable to dotage, eafe to pain, or life to death, I have a fair title to this favour. I would not be underftood, to inte- reft by this means, the inclinations or prejudices of my readers, on my fide, for that might prove detri¬ mental to truth $ but 1 introduce this remark, to fe- cure me againft the effedts of a petulant humour, which reigns but too much in the world, of diff liking whatever has the appearance of novelty, and fuppofing, that there is fomething equally juft and wife, in maintaining old opinions againft new, and running down any fyftem upon its firft appearance.- Againft this unequitable prepofteffion, in favour of antique notions, I fet up this claim to the good will of men, founded on the benefits refulting from my fyftem, to the human fpecies, either confidered as individuals or in fociety. It was upon the fame prin¬ ciple, that the late Dr. Harvey, eftablifhed his doc¬ trine of the circulation of the blood, which he juft- ]y obferved, would exempt the art of phyfic from many reproaches, and enable us to give a clearer and more rational account of die animal oeconomy. On this bafis too, ftands the philofophy of Sir Ifaac Newton, which is perhaps the nobleft effort of the human underftanding, I do not mean by this, to compare my invention with theirs, or myfelf to ei-