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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    PREFACE. The practical inferences contained in the following Essay form a part of the result of twenty-one years' extensive observation of Man, in all stages of civilization and refine- ment, from the Savage of Nicobar to the Philosopher of Europe. During the above period, as Human Health was the Author's primary object of study, so the Influences of Climate and modes of life on that health, were important subjects of investigation.— The first part of this interesting inquiry [In- fluence of Climate] has already passed the ordeal of public opinion and reception, in a manner that can leave but little doubt in the Author's mind respecting the fate of the pre- sent Work.