Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend

by Sir Thomas Browne

[XCIX.] Pro febre quartana raro sonat campana.

[C.] Cardan in his Encomium Podagrae reckoneth this among the Dona Podagræ, that they are delivered thereby from the phthisis and stone in the bladder.

[CI.] Hippoc, de Insomniis

[CII.] Tabes maxime contingunt ab anno decimo octavo and trigesi mum quintum.—Hippoc.

[CIII.] A sound child cut out of the body of the mother.

[CIV.] Natos ad flumina primum deferimus sævoque gelu dura mus et undis.

[CV.] Julii Cæsaris Scaligeri quod fuit.—Joseph. Scaliger in vita patris.

[CVI.] Summum nec metuas diem nec optes.

[CVII.] Who upon some accounts, and tradition, is said to have lived thirty years after he was raised by our Saviour.—Baronius.

[CVIII.] In the speech of Vulteius in Lucan, animating his soldiers in a great struggle to kill one another.—“Decernite letum, et metus omnis abest, cupias quodcumque necesse est.” “All fear is over, do but resolve to die, and make your desires meet necessity.”—Phars. iv. 486.