Principles and observations on many and various subjects, for the health of nations and individuals / by John Moodie.
- Moodie, John
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Principles and observations on many and various subjects, for the health of nations and individuals / by John Moodie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Judges ; too great economy with regard to the number of Scotch judges, and the evil consequences of it. Pledging of yotes when such are binding, and when otherwise. Banks, bullion, and the Bank of England. _ Law of copy- right—the right of the public to the works of an author at any time, and under any conditions. Entail, benefits of these, and prevention of their evil effects. Tea-duties, a reduction of these, and advantages to be gained by it. Note.—[There is also a Medical Treatise (a separate part) by the same Author. Apparatus to preserve the chastity of females and males (with four plates), and by this means to prevent other evils, and to preserve their ge- neral health, and also for falling down of the womb ; and shewing and prevent- ing the evils of swelling out the face and cheeks by stuffing them, and thus destroying the beauty, and causing disease of the face : sea-bathing; also the evils of tight-lacing. It is a paper which is of use to preserve the general health of all, and is a series of papers in one, on the most important subjects that are useful for preserving health.] This is a series of parts or subjects, having a close connection with each other as a whole, yet each part is of itself quite distinct. The whole were seen as they are at present at Messrs Ghambers, about July 1847, except that part from France, revolution, &c. down to future prospects in the governing of Great Bri- tain, which was finished as it is about the end of March 1848, and was seen at that time. But most of the parts were in manuscript, except with a few trifling additions, before the end of 1846. Some might say it is a long time since they were finished (we see books, and new additions of books, printed after they are dozens of years old, and that on politics); but most of the subjects have not yet been before the public, and others are not yet decided as to the right and wrong, and are still discussed; but it only shews if the opinions are correct or not—that they were not picked out of newspapers and magazines, and getting a bit here and there and everywhere ; because at the time they were written and seen, the subjects, except potatoes, we might say, had not been before the pub- lic, and the opinions regarding potatoes were not the opinions that we have given; and any of the other subjects that have come before the public, the opi- nions are not those that we have given. The medical treatise, containing the apparatus to protect males and females, was written about May 1846. At first it was not our intention to print any of the papers ; but after a time, we took a hint and were preparing to print them, but gave up the idea of doing it: when, on June 1848, from the opinions that we had seen in the newspapers and magazines, we resolved to print the whole as they are. The principles laid down in these different articles are applicable to a great variety of other cases than those to which they are at present applied, as may be seen in the application to the human race, and to animals, and to other grains—the prin- ciples which have been laid down with regard to potatoes. (But there are many who misapply principles, and use them in cases which resemble, but which are dissimilar to those where they may have seen them successfully ap- plied.) The principles laid down are applicable to other nations, as well as Great Britain, under certain modifications of time, place, and circumstances. In conclusion, we may state, that we have written on these various subjects more with a view to attract the attention of others to their great importance, and so as to elicit what information they can give to prevent the evils of them. (The nature of the subjects may make it tedious to read and understand much of them at a time.) Erroneous opinions, and opinions of long standing, which have been long be- lieved to be correct, and. this from many facts favouring such opinions, but from a circumstance or facts entirely opposite, they have been easily disproved, as such have plainly shewn the falsity of the facts which have appeared to be favourable to these long-standing opinions; and it has only been by laying these new, and true, and simple facts before the public, that the evils and falsity of the old opinions have been disproved ; and if these new proofs (per- haps first seen by chance) had not been revealed, the old errors and great evils arising from them might have continued. It is only by laying before the public information and opinions that improve- ments on these are elicited ; and that what is bad and erroneous is suppressed, and discovered, and improved, and the good and benefits known, used, and im- proved. Yet though we may differ from some in a few, or in many, or in all points, yet it is only by perusing books and opinions that are contrary to, as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21449302_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
