The law of human increase, or population based on physiology and psychology / by Nathan Allen.

  • Allen, Nathan, 1813-1889.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The law of human increase, or population based on physiology and psychology / by Nathan Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE LAW OF HUMAN INCREASE; OR, oit IflilsiclajTT imi The celebrated play of Hamlet has sometimes been quoted with the character of Hamlet left out, to illus- trate more forcibly certain acts or scenes in life. Such a quotation seems most appropriate in its application to the existing works upon the laws of human increase. It is a singular fact, that among all the writers on Pop- ulation, there is scarcely one who has been thoroughly educated in the science of physiology, or in the prac- tical application of medicine to the laws of life. The organs of the human body, with their various functions —which must certainly have something to do with the increase of population—have received from these writers but little attention. That common sense, and the judgment which we apply to the numerous facts in science, as well as to the practical duties of life, would surely incline us to the belief that the body, its