A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802.
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But though the excitability be in this way exhaufted, it will in the courfe of a day or two be again ac- cumulated, and it may, perhaps, be fufpedted that this exhauftion can do no harm to the conftitution; but this is a premature conclufion, and quite contrary to fa6t and ex- perience, as well as to reafon; for, juft in the fame manner that a pen- dulum, made to vibrate in the arc of a circle, will never return exactly to the fame height, but fall a little fhort of it every time; fo, though the excita- bility may be again accumulated, it never can be brought back to what it was