ABSTRACT
Sir Thomas Browne was an English doctor who settled in Norwich, in the east of England, in 1637 and resided there until his death. He is chiefly famous for his spiritual testament and psychological self-examination, entitled Religio Medici. The work, which contained some unorthodox religious beliefs, was circulated among his friends but an unauthorized edition was printed in 1642 without his permission. An official, revised version was printed in 1643 and the work was so popular that is was frequently reprinted afterwards in England and in the rest of Europe in translation. It is a barbarous part of inhumanity to adde unto any afflicted parties misery, or endeavour to multiply in any man, a passion, whose single nature is already above his patience; this was the greatest affliction of Job , and those oblique expostulations of his friends a deeper injury than the downe-right blowes of the Devill.
