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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    equally certain, though more flow. It is fufficiently evident then, that the living functions are owing to the action of thefe external powers upon the body. What I have here faid, is not confined to animals, but the liv- ing functions of vegetables are like- wife caufed by the adtion of dead mat- ter upon them. The dead matters, which by their adtion produce thefe functions, are principally heat, moif- ture, light, and air. It clearly fol- lows therefore, from what I have faid, that living bodies muft have fome property different from dead matter, which renders them capable of being adted