Lectures on the means of promoting and preserving health. Delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Spitalfields / by T. Hodgkin.

  • Hodgkin, Thomas, 1798-1866.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Lectures on the means of promoting and preserving health. Delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Spitalfields / by T. Hodgkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P R E F A C E. Ihe following Lectures were delivered at the Mechanics’ Institution, in Spitalfields, rather more than five years ago. I have been repeatedly pressed to print them, but a variety of engagements has not al- lowed me time to do so until the confine- ment, occasioned by a severe accident, furnished me with an opportunity of pro- ceeding with the task. I feel it necessary to state in apology for the want of uniformity in style, which may be observed in these Lectures, that they were partly written in full, and partly given extempore from short heads. In printing the latter portion, I have been under the necessity of employing, with some correction and addition, the notes which were taken by one of my hearers. a o