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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    ( 10 3 ) the perfon thus fituated, finds himfelf languid and enervated to a great de- gree ; for it feems a law. of the human body, that the fpirits are never arti- ficially raifed, without being after- wards proportionably deprefted; and to fhew clearly that in this ftate the excitability is exhaufted, the ordinary powers which in general fupport life, will not have their due effect; and a perfon thus fituated finds moil relief the next day, from taking fome of the fame ftimulus which occafioned the exhauftion ; becaufe the common ex- citing powers can fcarcely ad upon his exhaufted excitability. But