Sketches of the philosophy of life / by Sir T. C. Morgan.

  • Morgan, Thomas Charles, Sir, 1783-1843.
Date:
1818
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    counter agents exist in the store-house of nature, adapted to every case, and equal to every e-mergency. But to return from this digression. — The practical disadvantages of ignorance in matters of health are not merely confined to what respects the professional practice of medicine. Fatal errors are-committed in common life, by attributing effects to*wrong causes ; and much personal inconvenience results from false notions of the tendency of habits, which are adopted for* the preservation of health, and are tolerated for salutary effects they do hot produce. On the other hand, dangerous and destructive habits are continued from unfounded ideas of security derived from supposed counter agents, which have no real efficacy.—In one word, if igno- rance be imbecillity, privation, and suffering, its effects are never more immediate and in- timate than when it respects the management of health, and the accidents and affections of the human body. With an interest thus evident, it may appear strange, that physiology should have shared so little of the attention bestowed by general readers on the several branches of natural science. The solution of this problem most probably lies in the difficulties, in which the subject is supposed