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Excerpt from On Warming and Ventilating: With Directions for Making and Using the Thermometer-Stove, or Self-Regulating Fire, and Other New Apparatus
Misgovernment, injures the perfect life, or health, producmg all the disturbed states called diseases, except such as arise from poisons and violence; 3dly, that in modified management of them are found the most important remedies in all cases of disease; -4thly, that they, in conjunction with poisons and violence, constitute the primary sources Of human pleasures and pains, and are, directly or indirectly, the general motives of human actions or conduct. The knowledge of some of these truths has been slowly acquired by man. We shall review them separately.
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