Medical reform : a treatise on man's physical being and disorders, embracing an outline of a theory of human life, and a theory of disease--its nature, cause, and remedy / by Isaac Jennings.

  • Jennings, Isaac, active 1847-1860.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Medical reform : a treatise on man's physical being and disorders, embracing an outline of a theory of human life, and a theory of disease--its nature, cause, and remedy / by Isaac Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. An apology is due to my distant friends, at whose suggestion and solicitation I venture to appear before the public in print, for the tardiness of this appear- ance. Difficulties neither few nor small, which in the prov- idence of G od I have been called to encounter for a few years past, are my excuse. I advert to the occa- sion of delay to avoid the imputation of moral delin- quency,—of a-.want of proper respect for, and atten- tion to the wishes of my friends, to a seasonable compliance with which they werejustly entitled, by the many substantial tokens of affectionate regard which I have experienced at their hands. / have done the best I could. The beginning of sorrows was laid in tearing up old foundations, breaking away from long established and competent business pursuits, congen- ial associations and tried friendships,—cemented in the bonds of mutual confidence and affection,—and exchanging the exhilarating and tonic climate of New- England, for the fenny atmosphere of the West;— sundcrings and changes made, too, under the weight and inelasticity oi declining years. But of subsequent