An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure / By S.A. Tissot. Now first translated into English.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Date:
1768
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Credit: An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences. And instructions for their cure / By S.A. Tissot. Now first translated into English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    admitted by the great favour and in- dulgence of our fenate ; whilft I at the fame time reflet how much this new fituation differs from my former manner of living, in which as I had willingly pafs’d a confiderable part of any life, I had determin’d to continue to my old age; when I refled upon all thefe circumftances, a tremor feizes my limbs, and my voice falters, But ‘becaufe from the very foundation of this refpectable academy; cuftom, which governs all things, and your expe@a- tion requires it of me, embolden’d by your kindnefs, I will make trial of my abilities. Being a new member, and afcend- ing a new chair, I propos’d to {peak of the connexion between phyfic and other academical ftudies, and it was if my