The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufactures of Leeds: and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents, which produce disease, and shorten the duration of life ... / by C. Turner Thackrah.

  • Thackrah, Charles Turner, 1795-1833.
Date:
1831
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Credit: The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufactures of Leeds: and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents, which produce disease, and shorten the duration of life ... / by C. Turner Thackrah. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE EFFECTS, &c. May, in his several relations, is assuredly the most interesting subject for examination and reflection. His external form, his internal structure, the number and complexity of organs, their harmony and mutual support, the surprising power which restores injured parts, the organs which, connecting man with his fellows and the world, are the agents of social relation,— these exhibit the first animal in the universe—the work of a Creator all-wise and benevolent. Though we cannot rival the agency of superior wisdom ; though we can neither make man, nor improve his original. organization ; we may reduce his character, weaken his frame, and bring on him premature decay and death. It is one thing, indeed, to view this being, as God made him: it is another, to examine him in a state of moral and physical degradation. Pliny, in the affecting and powerful exordium to his chapter on Man, paints human miseries with a pencil of gall. He refers especially to the connate evils of our physical state, as contrasted with that of the brute. But had he lived in an age of physiological knowledge, he would rather have admired those structures and arrangements, which give man a decided superiority over the bulk of the animal creation, He afterwards refers to the intellectual and moral evils, which B