Popular Lectures on Zoonomia

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Garnett Thomas. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia

Popular Lectures on Zoonomia

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ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, AND HONOURABLE, THE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, THESE LECTURES, COMPOSED BY A MAN, WHO, IN HIS LIFE TIME, WAS HONOURED BY THEIR SELECTION, AS THEIR FIRST LECTURER; AND WHOSE INFANT FAMILY HAVE SINCE EXPERIENCED THEIR BENEVOLENCE AND PROTECTION, ARE, WITH PERMISSION, DEDICATED, BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE SUBSCRIPTION, IN FAVOUR OF THOSE ORPHANS. CONTENTS. THE AUTHOR'S LIFE

LECTURE I, INTRODUCTION

LECTURE II, ON RESPIRATION

LECTURE III, ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

LECTURE IV, ON DIGESTION AND NUTRITION

LECTURE V, OF THE SENSES IN GENERAL

LECTURE VI, ON TASTE AND SMELL

LECTURE VII, ON SOUND AND HEARING

LECTURE VIII, ON VISION

LECTURE IX, ON THE LAWS OF ANIMAL LIFE

LECTURE X, ON THE LAWS OF ANIMAL LIFE

LECTURE XI, OF THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF DISEASES

LECTURE XII, ON INFLAMMATION AND ASTHENIC DISEASES

LECTURE XIII, ON THE GOUT

LECTURE XIV, ON NERVOUS COMPLAINTS

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

LECTURES ON ZOONOMIA. LECTURE I. INTRODUCTION

LECTURE II. RESPIRATION

LECTURE III. CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

LECTURE V. OF THE SENSES IN GENERAL

LECTURE VI. TASTE AND SMELL

LECTURE VII. SOUND AND HEARING

LECTURE VIII. VISION

[FIGURE] EXPLANATION

LECTURE IX. THE LAWS OF ANIMAL LIFE

LECTURE X. THE LAWS OF ANIMAL LIFE, CONTINUED

LECTURE XI. OF THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF DISEASES

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LECTURE XII. ON INFLAMMATION AND ASTHENIC DISEASES

LECTURE XIII. ON THE GOUT

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Thomas Garnett

Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease

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Physiological ignorance is, undoubtedly, the most abundant source of our sufferings; every person accustomed to the sick must have heard them deplore their ignorance of the necessary consequences of those practises, by which their health has been destroyed: and when men shall be deeply convinced, that the eternal laws of nature have connected pain and decrepitude with one mode of life, and health and vigour with another, they will avoid the former and adhere to the latter.

It is strange, however, to observe that the generality of mankind do not seem to bestow a single thought on the preservation of their health, till it is too late to reap any benefit from their conviction: so that we may say of health, as we do of time, we take no notice of it but by its loss; and feel the value of it when we can no longer think of it but with retrospect and regret.

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