Nonfiction · 1642
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and The Letter to a Friend
Browne was a practicing physician in seventeenth-century Norwich, and these three pieces move between his medical training and his religious faith without treating them as being in any real tension — Religio Medici lays out his personal creed, Hydriotaphia meditates on burial urns and mortality after some were dug up near his home, and the Letter to a Friend describes a patient's death with the same close attention he gave to any other subject.
Browne wrote Religio Medici around 1635 and published it, without his full consent, in 1642; Hydriotaphia followed in 1658.
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