Lectures on diet and regimen : being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine / by A.F.M. Willich, M.D.

  • Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Date:
1801
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    PREFACE TO THE THIRD LONDON EDITION. IN the Advertifements prefixed to the firft and fecond Editions of thefe Lectures, the Author has ftated the object of his labours, and the motives which induced him to publifh the Work. He has gratefully acknow- ledged his obligations to many Englifh and German wri- ters, of whofe valuable obfervations he has occafionally availed himfelf; and is more particularly indebted to Priestley, Fothergill, Vaughan, Armstrong, Cullen, Falconer, Adams, Ingenhouz, Hah- nemann, HUFELAND, MARCARD, SoMMERING, Struve, and Unzer. As a difcriminating Public has received this Work with the molt flattering approbation, it may appear fu- perfluous to apologize for the infertion of thofe fubjects of inquiry, however important, which fome faftidious critics have deemed objectionable. The Author alludes to the ninth chapter, which contains a body of informa- tion, not to be met with in any popular treatife hitherto publifhed in the Englifii language. It is true, that, on a point of fuch nicety and peculiar delicacy, a variety of feelings and fentiments prevail in Society : but if it be admitted, thzifalfe delicacy has done greater injury to good manners, and found morals, than undifguifed truth, efpecially if this be related in a manly and philofophical ftyle, the judicious reader will not hefitate to pronounce a verdict in favour of the Au- thor. Indeed, this has, in a great meafure, already been verified by experience. Befides, the method of writing here adopted will be found uniformly chafte and ferious; fo that the good intentions of the writer cannot be mif- b