Deformity: an essay / By William Hay.

  • William Hay
Date:
MDCCLV. [1755]
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Credit: Deformity: an essay / By William Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *2 ) my Mother a celebrated Beauty ; and I that am fo unlike them, have lived to a greater Age: and daily fee my Acquain¬ tance, of a ftronger Frame, quitting the Stage before me. But I leave it to better Naturalifts to determine, whether Deformity, abftradt- edly confidered, is prejudicial to Health ; for in its Confequences, I believe, it is mod: commonly an Advantage. Deformed Perfons have a lefs Share of Strength than others, and therefore fhould natu¬ rally be more careful to preferve it: and as Temperance is the great Prefervative of Health, it may incline them to be more temperate. I have Reafon to think that my own weak Frame and Conftitu- tion have prolonged my Life to this pre- fent Date. But I fhould impofe upon my Reader, and affront Heaven, if I afcribed that to Virtue, which took its Rife from Neceffity, Being of a con- fumptive
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