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John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Physick

[1693] John Locke, "Physick," in Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693; London, 1712; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks).

It is safer to leave them wholly to Nature, than to put 'em into the Hands of one forward to tamper, or that thinks Children are to be cur'd , in ordinary Distempers, by any Thing but Dyet, or by a Method very little distant from it. It seeming suitable both to my Reason and Experience, that the tender Constitution of Children should have as little done to them, as is possible, and as the absolute Necessity of the Case requires. A little cold-still'd red Poppy-water, which is the true Surfeit-water, with Ease and Abstinence from Flesh, often puts and End to several Distempers in the Beginning, which, by too forward Applications, might have been made lusty Diseases. (32)