The principles of physiology applied to the preservation of health and to the improvement of physical and mental education / By Andrew Combe.

  • Andrew Combe
Date:
1836
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The principles of physiology applied to the preservation of health and to the improvement of physical and mental education / By Andrew Combe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    22/464 page 2
    the digestive organs are already in extensive circula- tion*. In offering practical rules for the guidance of the reader, it has been my constant endeavour to exhibit the relation subsisting between them and the parti- cular laws of the organization according to which their influence is exerted, that the recommendation given may rest, as far as possible, on the foundation of nature, and not on the doubtful authority of any individual. Many of the valuable treatises which have already appeared on the subject of health and of education, seem to me to have failed in making an adequate impression on the public mind, chiefly from this basis not having been brought sufficiently into view; and thus not only have ‘the evils arising from defective education been unjustly and invidious- ly charged against education itself, but the most op- posite methods have been advocated and practised with equal earnestness and plausibility, where a di- rect reference to the laws of the organization would * Notwithstanding the above expression of opmion, so many sugges- tions have been made to me, since the publication of the former editions, to continue the work, and give a similar account of the functions of di- gestion, nutrition, circulation, &c. that I have nearly completed the pre- paration of another volume for that purpose, to be entitled ‘* The Phy- siology of Digestion considered with reference to the principles of Diete- tics.” In this work I have insisted more on the general laws of digestion, and on the adaptation of diet to different ages, constitutions, and conii- tions of life, and less on the qualities of individual articles of food, thanis usually done ; and hope thus to have given it somewhat of the same plain and practical character which has contributed so much to the success of the present.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3