Excerpt from A Dissertation on Intemperance: To Which Was Awarded the Premium Offered by the Massachusetts Medical Society
Life has been aptly likened to the heavenly fire with which Prometheus animated his statues of earth. While this celestial flame continues to burn, all the manifestations of life are maintained, but with its ex tinction all the vital actions which it excited must cease. Now though this flame must at last go out, still its ex tinction may be hastened or protracted according as we artificially and irregularly excite it, or allow it to burn on steadily and equally.
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Pages
108
Format
Paperback
Release
January 26, 2019
ISBN 13
9780260252715
A Dissertation on Intemperance: To Which Was Awarded the Premium Offered by the Massachusetts Medical Society (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from A Dissertation on Intemperance: To Which Was Awarded the Premium Offered by the Massachusetts Medical Society
Life has been aptly likened to the heavenly fire with which Prometheus animated his statues of earth. While this celestial flame continues to burn, all the manifestations of life are maintained, but with its ex tinction all the vital actions which it excited must cease. Now though this flame must at last go out, still its ex tinction may be hastened or protracted according as we artificially and irregularly excite it, or allow it to burn on steadily and equally.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.