Esoteric anthropology / by T.L. Nichols.

  • Thomas Low Nichols
Date:
1853
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    subject; the former are cumbrous, and incomprehen- sible to any but a professional reader ; the latter are meager and shallow, and neither contain a clear philos- ophy of life and health. Within, a few years there have been some earnest works written upon special subjects in physiology and pathology, which have been very useful; but I know of no comprehensive treatise, which I could confidently recommend. The books on some of the most important matters treated of in the following pages, are, for the most part, either the result of an unscientific enthusiasm, leading to great errors, or a morbid pruriency of imagination ; or, more commonly still, are devices of the boldest and most unscrupulous quackery. Of this latter class, there are scores of books in the market, each containing a portion of truth, but each full of errors, and each intend- ed solely to make money directly by their sale; but still more to bring practice in some special line of medi- cal or surgical quackery. It is a distinctive feature of this class of works, that in every few pages will be found a tempting bait for a personal consultation, or a course of treatment. And this is the design of nine tenths of all the medical books now published. I write from other motives, and for other purposes. I write, not to get consultations, but to prevent their necessity; not to attract patients, but to keep them away; and to enable them to get health without my further care. I wish to make this book so full,'so clear, so thorough, and complete, that every one may under- stand the structure and functions of his system, the conditions of health, the causes of disease, and all the modes and processes of cure. It is a book for the pre-
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