An essay on the wear and tear of human life : and the real remedy for this complaint / by G.T. Hayden.

  • Hayden, G. T. (George Thomas), 1798-1857.
Date:
1846
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Credit: An essay on the wear and tear of human life : and the real remedy for this complaint / by G.T. Hayden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    any profit for liimself or others ; at lengtli he is so op- ju'essecl and unfit for business, that he either throws up what he had undertaken, and declines business altogether, or, in future, cautiously selects what he conceives he has calibre enough to manage profitably. ]\Ir. D. has a fine sound understanding—prudence, common sense, and vigo- rous intellect, with business-like habits. He undertakes so much good business only, as he can manage without haste or oppression. He realises profits for those Avho cmjiloy him, and also for himself; the latter he enjoys rationally by procuring for himself and family all those comforts and elegancies Avhich are so much the more prized and enjoyed as they are the sweet rewards of judicious and Avell-directed jiei’sonal energies and abilities. I shall next beg to direct attention to the analogies ■which exist between the absorbing system and social life. The absorbents may be briefly described as engaged either in removing the old material of the body, or in carrying in the new, for the purposes of nutrition, growth, and repair. In like manner our servants and dependents are con- stantly and busily employed in carrying oflf our old clothes, while we ai’c industriously semping together the means of jirocuring new attire—not to be made “ Moods’' but to in- cite Mr. Blood—“ de tailor, de schneider, dat make dc gen- tleman !”*—to fit us out aneAv ! We have numerous lacteals, lymphatics, glands, vessels, • “ Hut de tailor, de schneider, make de gentleman! It is Mr. Frantz of St. Jame-s’s -who take his measure and his cloth, and who make the fine handsome noblemen and gentrj', where de faders and de muthers make only de ugly little naked b03-s.” n 2