Volume 2

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ dicines, in the hopes that their recovery or clearance, will enable them to return to their old hog-troughs of gluttony or fen- fuality, to begin again on a frefh account, and to continue with impunity, at leaft for fuch a length of time, as in their edi- mate of things, will be a compenfation for the return they befpeak of their diforders, and confequently of the neceffity of repeat¬ ing their recourfe to phific; not con- fidering how much their conftitution is the worfe, and the fprings of life the more , ' worn out, for every paflidiforder, fo that no relapfe can talce place, but, but with in¬ comparably a greater degree of danger, every time it does take place. / Many have the ilrange weaknefs of dif- trufting the plainer and more obvious me¬ thods of treatment, fuch as are the inftinc- tive fuggedions of nature, abftinence and quiet, only becaufe they are plain and ob¬ vious : nor will any reafonings on the caufe I of