The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

  • Harper, Andrew, -1790.
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[1789]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health, or, A medical essay : containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity, in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Power, is utterly impolTible, and to fay that it is immaterial, or that it is fomething which has no Parts, is, pofitively, to fay that it is Nothing at all. This Power is befl known, and I think mofl: happily defcribed by the common Terms, Mind, Life or Soul. Now, al- though I profefs, and indeed muft treat of this Power or Mind as an eflential and or- ganic Part of the human Structure, I am ready, at the fame Time, to declare (leaft I {hould miflead the weak or ignorant) that this Doflrine ought not, nor, by any Means, tan be deemed repugnant (o the Belief of Immortality, or a future State of Exiftence. On the contrary, it places human Nature in a rational Light, and will be found to obviate and reconcile thofe Difficulties which occur in confidering this nice Point. For where is the Objedtion, in Refped; of Reafon or Philofophy, againft the Opinion that this Power, Soul, Mind, or animating Effence of the Body, immutable in itsPro- perties, may, at the final Hour, fublime, as