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:
1799
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the prefeni Slate of Medicine as a ScieHcits We apparently live in ail age, when every branch of human knowledge is reduced to a popular fyftem j when the mod important fciences lay aiide the garb of pedantry and myflicifm; when, in Ihort* the fources of information are open to every rank, and to both fexes. An improvement* which is fo confpicuous* muft ultimately be attended with the molt defirable and extenfive effects* Among other beneficial purfuits to rendef the comforts of life more numerous and permanent* we have occafion to obferve, that Natural Philo* fophy and Chemiftry contribute a principal fhare in fpreading ufeful knowledge among all ranks of fociety* Since Medicine* Confidered as a fcience, which tells upon practical rules of experience, is in a great meafure founded Upon Natural Philofophy and Chemiftry, it will be allowed, that with the daily progrefs of the latter* Medicine aifo mtift neceflarily partake of their improvements* and