Observations on the preservation of health in infancy, youth, manhood and age. With a brief account of the principal British and continental spas and watering places / [John Harrison Curtis].

  • Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860
Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the preservation of health in infancy, youth, manhood and age. With a brief account of the principal British and continental spas and watering places / [John Harrison Curtis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE FIRST EDITION. The popularity of my two small works on the Preser- vation of Hearing and Sight, has led me to believe that a book on the Preservation of Health, written on the same plan, would probably be useful to that large class of the community, the members of which, having neither the leisure, the inclination, nor the pecuniaiy means of becoming acquainted with more voluminous and scientific treatises, are yet, doubtless, as much interested in the subject, and as desirous of information upon it, as per- sons more favourably circumstanced. I am aware that many excellent and useful works have lately been published on this point; which have, I trust, effected much good, by directing the attention of the public to a matter of first-rate importance, previously but little attended to. Yet I think it cannot be denied, that the size and price of these books have excluded many persons from participating in the advantages they are capable of conferring: and it is to be feared that the same effect has been produced by their profoundly scientific nature ; a quality which, however admirable in itself, unfits works possessing it for very extensive circulation; and hence, while man is continually ex- tending his dominion more widely over animate and