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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    the lummer advances become increas- ed, they firft lofe their verdure, then grow brown, and at the end of Summer ceaSe to live; becauSc their excitability is exhaufted by the long continued adtion of the exciting powers ; and this does not happen merely in confequence of the heat of Summer decreafing, for they grow brown and die, even in a greater de- cree of heat than that which in O Spring made them grow luxuriantly. Thefe are examples of the finite, or irreparable exhauftion of the excita- bility ; but we find alfo, that it may be