Free observations on the scurvy, gout, diet, and remedy / by Francis Spilsbury, chymist, Soho-Square. London.

  • Spilsbury, Francis
Date:
1788
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Credit: Free observations on the scurvy, gout, diet, and remedy / by Francis Spilsbury, chymist, Soho-Square. London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    paffions, our mode of living, the imbecility] of our bodies, preferved only in a tolerable}! ftate of fanity by attention and indultry. The) i leaft relaxation on one fide, the too free in-T dulgence on the other, is fufficient to createj| ills which require time, fagacity, refolutionj and perfeverance, in order to repair and beau-j tify the human ftru&ure, to render it fit oncdl more for action, in the ftation affigned to it by % the great Ruler of the Univerfe—A narrow in path for man to tread, to whom cenfure often in is haflily imputed, as if he was a perfect, free m agent, for we cannot deem that creature free. In who is not mafter of his own temper and fj< paffion at all times, and in all ftations of life ; 50 certainly we are of that pliant nature, fa eafily lmprefTed and tolled about, ruffled by little trifling accidents, which we know is i folly to give way to; yet we can no more help 1 a it, than the water being raifed in curly waves fjt| when agitated by the wind. Thefe little in- jp, cidents bias our frame, and are fufficient tc create ferments, which, not being checkec ^ by us, or awed by law, may burft forth either !l; to our own deftruction, or that of another, ^ Free we are in many refpe&s, and feemingly ^ quite io to others, who think we may chufc ^ either to go or flay, to commit or defifl; in an ^ action.