A lecture introductory to a course of popular instruction on the constitution and management of the human body / by Thomas Beddoes, M. D.

  • Thomas Beddoes
Date:
1797
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A lecture introductory to a course of popular instruction on the constitution and management of the human body / by Thomas Beddoes, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    17/100 page 11
    propofed courfe by a public le&ure. But if I could have been ever fo certain that no unde- cided individual would have appeared here to night, I mould, neverthelefs, have thought it right to fubmit to you the following train of re- flections, as it may enliven your future attention, and create for the fubjecl a more lafting inte- rest in your minds. Let us take a fummary view of thofe amelior- ations in the perfonal condition of mankind, upon which we in Great Britain can fully reckon; and afterwards enquire what is principally wanting towards domeftic felicity, as far as that depends on exemption from difeafe.— At the outfet of this enumeration, I per- ceive that clearnefs of connection will oblige me to recall feveral things that cannot bave efcaped your notice. I may touch upon truths at once trivial and afflictive ; therefore doubly unwelcome. I have, indeed, no defire to expatiate on common places. But it cannot be a difadvantage to my inferences, if they follow from premifes of indifputable notoriety.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3