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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    be exhaufted for a time, and accu- mulated again. Though the eye has been fo dazzled by the fplendour of light, that it cannot fee an objecft moderately illuminated, yet, if it be fhut for fome time, the excitability of the optic nerve accumulates again, and we are again capable of feeing with an ordinary light. We find, that we are not always equally capable of performing the functions of life. When we have been engaged in any exertion, either mental or corporeal, for fome hours only, we find ourfclves fatigued, and unfit D