The influence of civic life, sedentary habits, and intellectual refinement, on human health, and human happiness : including an estimate of the balance of enjoyment and suffering in the different gradations of society / by James Johnson, Esq. surgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845.
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: The influence of civic life, sedentary habits, and intellectual refinement, on human health, and human happiness : including an estimate of the balance of enjoyment and suffering in the different gradations of society / by James Johnson, Esq. surgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and other abdominal organs. Then the cure will proceed with ease and certainty. BALANCE OF ENJOYMENT IN FOOD. Walking one evening in the vicinity of Gros- venor Square, I came opposite to an area, from whence issued the most profuse and savoury odours of every thing which could at once stimulate and gratify the human palate. An immense dinner Was in transitu from the kitchen to the banquet- ing room; and leaning over the iron railings was a half starved and half naked wretch, apparently inhaling the rich steam from below, and soliciting charity from the passenger at the same time. A tall and benevolent looking gentleman stopped at this moment, and seemed to contemplate the scene. Putting a small piece of money hi the beggar's hand, he lifted up his eyes to Heaven, and eja- culated in a low voice— O how unequally are the gifts and enjoyments of Nature distributed in this world! I could not undeceive this gentleman at the time; but should these pages ever meet hi*