Volume 1

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]y and falfely called phyfic, feems a wife inftindl of nature, protefting againft what is fo often matter hoftile to the human body; for the attack of which itfelf, rather than of the difeafes that infeft it, a juft ufe of reafon, will give room to think, that the three kingdoms, animal, vegetable, and mineral, have been induftriouQy ran- facked for offenfive arms. Nature in fhort has often but too much reafon to complain of medicines, that under the malic of aux¬ iliaries, perfidioufly join forces with her declared enemies. How often, while lan- guifhing under the confequences of a diet heterogeneous to her, is ftie over-loaded or defti oyed’with matter, if polTible, even more fo, under the rcfpedable name of phyfic ? Thus one ill is only changed for a greater one, and fometimes both proceed together, fo that in fadf, flie has ail at once to en¬ counter a bad diet, bad phific, and the difeafe itfelf. Is it a wonder that ftie is fo often overpov/ered ^ And even when in virtue
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