Volume 1

Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life; together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine / By A.F.M. Willich.

  • Anthony Florian Madinger Willich
Date:
1800
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Credit: Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life; together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine / By A.F.M. Willich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by indiffoluble ties ; that every thing exifts for the fake of another, and that no one thing can exilt without its neighbour. Hence we jultly conclude, that man himfelf is not an infulated Being, but that he is a neceffary link in the great chain, which connects the univerfe. Nature is our fafeft guide, and fhe will be fo with greater certainty, as we become bet- ter acquainted with her operations, efpecially: with refpect to thofe particulars which more: nearly concern our phyfical exiftence: Thus,, a fource of many and extenfive advantages: will be opened’; thus we fhall approach to our original deftination—namely, that of living: fon ng and healthy. ~On'the’contrary, as long as we move in a: vitwiter? {phere of knowledge ; as long as we are: “unconcerned with reipett to the’ caufes which produce Health or difeafe, we are int danger, either of being anxiouily parfimoni- ous, Or prodigally profufe of thole powers, by which ‘life is fupported. Both extremes are contrary to the purpofe of nature. — “She teaches ‘us the rule of ju economy Wwe, , being a fmall part of her great fy{tem, mult follow her ex campile, and expend’ neither too: much nor too little of her treafures.. “Although it be true that our knowledge of nature is Rill very imperfect, yet this crs cumfance ovght' noc to deter us-from invef= tigating the means. w hich may, lead 1 to its im~ eagle | & Weare affifted by tNere experience’ oe is many bes bag ig shige of fo many found Ny 9] s; i a a - 2a8: