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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    folutely neceffary to the greater part of mankind for obtaining the means of exiftence.—Had not exercife been ab- lolutely neceffary for our well-being, fays the elegant Addifon, nature would not have made the body fo proper for it, by giving fuch an activity to the limbs, and fuch a pliancy to every part, as neceffarily produce thofe comprefiions, extenfions, contortions, dilatations, and all other kinds of mo- tions, that are neceffary for the pre- fervation of fuch a fyftem of tubes and glands.—And that we might not want inducement to engage us in fuch exercife of the body as is proper for