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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    endeavour, in as plain and eafy a man- ner as poflible, to explain to you the laws by which life is governed; and when we fee in what health confifts, we fhall be better enabled to take fuch methods as may preferve it. Health is the eafy and pleafant exercife of all the functions of the body and mind; and difeafe confifts in the un- eafy and difproportioned exercife of all, or fome of the functions. When dead matter acts upon dead matter, the only effects we perceive are mechanical, or chemical; for though there may appear to be other b 2 kinds