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Precepts for the Preservation of Health, Life, and Happiness, Medical and Moral. [Followed By] Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life by L. Cornaro


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1859 Excerpt: ... about the misery of human life, there is none more unjust than that which respects the shortness of it." Professor Blumenbach himself lived to the age of eighty-eight, and retained his faculties to the last, and thus became one of the many striking instances which the scientific world affords of the compatibility of persevering mental occupation and exercise with protracted bodily health. I have been assured by a gentleman who heard him lecture a short time only before his death, that he continued to lecture with all the spirit and humour that had characterised his long career of usefulness. We have just seen his animated sketch of what he was fond of terming the human microcosm; and well may a being, so fearfully and wonderfully made, be thus denominated. Having brought man from the cradle to the grave, and shown how precious is the charge confided to the members of the medical profession, it will scarcely be deemed irrelevant or out of place, if I here add that the most demented being in existence is an infidel physician; by which term I do not mean a mere Atheist, for Galen's conversion put a stop, ages ago, to medical Atheism; but a Christian infidel--a disbeliever in the divinity of our blessed Lord, and His redeeming love. Beyond the pale of the Bible no greater men have been known to exist than the philosophers of the golden age of Athens; but, whether led to the Being of a God by the contemplation of the wonderful fabric of the body, or the more wonderful faculties of the mind, still, all beyond the grave was dark and uncertain--"To be, or not to be?" And yet no believing Christian can doubt that the condition of modern sceptics is infinitely more deplorable than that of Socrates or Plato, inasmuch as light is come into the world, and they close th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150155239
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115015523X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr

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