A Letter to a Friend

A Letter to a Friend

"A Letter to a Friend" (written 1656; published posthumously in 1690) , by the 17th century philosopher and physician Sir Thomas Browne is a medical treatise full of case-histories and witty speculations upon the human condition.

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