The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell.

  • Newell, Daniel.
Date:
1825
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Credit: The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. Knowledge when reduced to practice, con- stitutes no small part of the real dignity and happiness of man. By this he obtains ascen- dency over his species, and is rendered capable of adding to the happiness or misery of his fellow men. All attempts, therefore, to extend its limits and facilitate its acquisition, wiU be considered as worthy of attention and regard. To do this is tlie object of the present work. In this interesting period of the world, in which a thousand intellectual impediments to our happiness have been surmounted by the student and physician; in which wisdom comes to us in the shape of experiment, we have our duty written as with a sunbeam. The path of duty too, in regard to the subject of temper- ance in the use of our enjoyments, is no less clearly designated, than that of other duties. There are, doubtless, laws in nature, by which man may arrive to maturity, to the sum- mit of health and vigour, and live to a great age. It is then our duty to study our physical na- ture, in order that we may acquire this valua- ble knowledge. Observation, has taught us, 1*