This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... the friend of health. bt samuel hahnemann, Doctor of Madicino, Member of the Academy of Sciences of Mtntz, and of '.he Economical Society of Leiptif. part I.1 preface. When we behold the large family of mankind acting as they do, when we see with what perseverance they go through their more or less ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... the friend of health. bt samuel hahnemann, Doctor of Madicino, Member of the Academy of Sciences of Mtntz, and of '.he Economical Society of Leiptif. part I.1 preface. When we behold the large family of mankind acting as they do, when we see with what perseverance they go through their more or less important spheres of action, which some wretched passion often traces out for them, when we see how they all strive after the attainment of some kind of happiness, be it ease, rank, money, learning, amusement or excitement, scarcely deigning to cast a single glance towards the real blessings of this world, wisdom and health, which beckon them back into Eden, we can scarcely refrain from pitying a race of such noble origin and high destiny. My mission permits me not to point out the means of ennobling the mind; it behoves mo only to preach upon the greatest of corporeal blessings, health, which scarcely any take the trouble to seek after, and few know how to value until it is lost. It will scarcely be credited when I assert that nought is shunned more earnestly, nay is held to be more disgraceful, than rational care about the health. We indeed hear it occasionally remarked that this or the other article of diet is wholesome or hurtful, that this or that remedy is a specific for this or that disease, this or the other habit is injurious; in the higher and lower circles of society, people interest themselves with fashionable modes of treatment, marvellous diseases, cases of sudden death, beautifying remedies, and anecdotes about physicians. But all this is only vain trifling. ' Published at Frankfort on the Main, in 1792. The lover of highly spiced dishes exclaims against the indigestible nature of puddings; the tea-drinker can speak like a boo
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Good. Good half-leather hardcover. ORIGINAL 1852 PRINTING. Ex-Library with filing numbers on spine and bookplate on inside front cover. Steel engraving of Hahnemann as frontispiece. PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARKED. 783 pages. Covers (half-leather with elaborate gilt decoration/lettering on spine) show edge wear with rubbing/heavy scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!