A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cold weather, our excitability would not be accumulated by the adlion of the cold. If a greater proportion of females fall vi&ims to this difeafe, is it not becaufe, lofing fight, more than men, of its primary purpofe, they regulate their drefs folely by fantaftic ideas of elegance ? If happily, as is obferved by Dr. Beddoes, our regret fhould recall the age of chivalry, to break the fpell of fafhion would be an atchievement worthy the molt gal- lant of our future knights. Common fenfe has always failed in the adven- ture ; and our ladies, alas ! are ftill compelled, whenever the enchantrefs waves