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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    at their zenith; and vice versa, according 'to the nature and office of the parts whose activity is impaired, and in proportion to the declension of that activity. Many of the causes of impaired bodily vigor, and which when pointed out are acknowledged to be such, are nevertheless regarded as little things, unworthy of grave attention. Now it is not, by a coarse, single strand cable that the god of this world leads his subjects w captive at his will,—but by thou- sands of little silken threads, woven into a firm invin- cible texture, with which he binds his victims head, hand and foot, that he controls them at his pleasure. Through grace, these threads are to be singly sought out and sundered, and man once more put in posses- sion of himself,—the animal brought under the do- minion of, and made subservient to, the man; the ap- petites and passions put under the most perfect and easy control of reason, and all subject to the high behests of heaven. Vain will it be to attempt the universal and permanent elevation of man in one department of his nature, to a point that deserves the name of perfection, without securing in him a corresponding development of every other depart- ment.