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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    are formed ; thefe are ftimuli, which if totally withdrawn, we could not exift many days. Thefe ftimuli are fubjed to the fame laws with all the others which ad upon the body., When they ad properly in concert with the other powers, they produce the healthy ftate; but if they ad in an undue degree, whether that adion be too great or too little, difeafe will be the confequence. When they ad too feebly, the excitability will accu- mulate; and difeafes of debility, at- tended with a very great degree of ir- ritability, will take place: this has been inftanced in thofe who have been without