...rendered all the more easy and certain." "Disease, like sin," he explained, "is permitted to exist; but conscience and revelation on the one hand, and reason...kindred means with which God has armed us against them." 2s More influential than Griscom in illuminating the misery and sickness which existed in New York...

...benevolent Deity. Disease, so often equated in their cosmology with sin, was permitted by God to exist, but conscience and revelation on the one hand and reason and science on the other were the tools provided by Him for man to combat these evils. Medicine's task was to reveal and teach...