Lectures on the ordinary agents of life : as applicable to therapeutics and hygiene, or, the uses of the atmosphere, habitations, baths, clothing, climate, exercise, foods, drinks, &c. in the treatment and prevention of disease / by Alexander Kilgour, M.D.

  • Kilgour, Alexander, 1803-1874.
Date:
1834
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on the ordinary agents of life : as applicable to therapeutics and hygiene, or, the uses of the atmosphere, habitations, baths, clothing, climate, exercise, foods, drinks, &c. in the treatment and prevention of disease / by Alexander Kilgour, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    382/394 (page 352)
    Shandy was the weekly winding up of the clock. The mar- ried man yields only to the calls of nature, the debauchee yields to the seducing pictures of his own distempered mind ; and the latter being almost constantly in a state of excita- tion, the body is weakened in consequence. 5th. Not only in the married state is the natural call to the discharge of the secreted fluid gratified in moderation, but the parties, and more especially the female, become more unreserved towards each other, and there is much less of the injurious forms which fashion imposes on the unmarried. A young Lady must be the creature of artifice. She can be thought nothing else than a wax doll possessed of intellect, and the finer feelings of human nature. She is not allowed to be subject to the common necessities of our nature. She must often walk when she is ill able for it, eat little when she is very hungry, say she is well when she is ill, and wear the mask of gladness when her heart is the seat of woe. She has a part to act, and she is not off the stage until she is mar- ried. The play is then ended, and she ungirds and undresses herself for a natural character. The divinity that doth hedge a virgin disappears from a wife, and she becomes in every respect a mortal. The character which she formerly held in public, she, in a great measure, retained from modesty and diffidence even in private; but now she is freer before her husband than she was before her sister, And notwithstand- ing that the woman who keeps her necessities and the lot of her sex as far as possible from the knowledge of her spouse, will have a charm about her, and much longer retain his early affections, yet, in the majority, there is a wonderful free-and-easiness; and Swift was correct, though as usual dirty, in that poem where, amongst other things not altoge- ther decorous from a parson, he says Oa box of Cedar sits the wife, And makes it warm for (< dearest life. Much has been said about the age at which a person should