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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    and in which their great fouls place all the worth and joy of life ? On better principles, the phificians of the Afclepiadic fchool, or rather the phificianS' according to nature, with a fpirit worthy of a profeflion fo friendly to mankind, as the' medical undoubtedly is in its original inten¬ tion, maintained the double charafter of prefervers and reftorers of health. They proved themfelves above the inhuman meannefs of the fear of being rendered lefs necelfary by the prefervative liftem,in them¬ felves being the great inftruments of its eftablifliment. Nor probably did even their private intereft fuffer by it, as, in- truth, it did not deferve to fuffer by it. Their ftudy of nature, and their affiduous obfervation of the march and approaches of her enemies, muft have qualified them for being counfellors or comptrollers of health,. K 3 whilr