The economy of health, or, The stream of human life from the cradle to the grave : with reflections, moral, physical, and philosophical, on the septennial phases of human existence / by James Johnson.

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The economy of health, or, The stream of human life from the cradle to the grave : with reflections, moral, physical, and philosophical, on the septennial phases of human existence / by James Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n final retrospect, but interminable as it appears in arly perspective—into ten epochs or periods, of seven years each, which, though blending and amal- gamating at their junctions, are yet clearly marked by distinctive characteristics in their several phases. Simple and isolated as the subject of health may aeem, in these ten Septenniads, it will probably be found to touch, if not embrace Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, many—perhaps most of those actions, passions, en- joyments, and sufferings that constitute the drama of human life! C