Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1821 Excerpt: ...of cadaverous matter lie in the closest contact, and where one body is not unfrequently mutilated or removed to give place to another. A soil like this, composed principally of human relics, constitutes an accumulated mass of malignant and almost irresistible contagion. Independently of such considerations, there is scarcely any man, in spite of all his reasonings, but must feel a repugnance to molest the quiet, and to violate the sanctity of the grave. We're not ourselves When nature being opprest, commands the mind To suffer with the body. SHAKsrxAR. When disease originates from an improper indulgence in the more solid luxuries of the table, if ought perhaps in general to be regarded as a condition of debility, occasioned in a great measure by a fatigue of the corporeal powers. The epicure is not aware what hard work his stomach is obliged to undergo, in vainly struggling to incorporate the chaotic mass with which he has distended and oppressed it. It is possible to be tired with the labor of digestion, as well as with any other labor. The fibres connected with this process, are wearied by the execution or by the ineffectual endeavour to execute too heavy a task, in the same manner as the limbs are apt to be wearied by an extraordinary degree of pedestrian exertion. Gluttony is one of the most frequent conductors to the grave. When even the table may be said to groan under the load of luxury, it is no wonder that the stomach also should feel the burden. The poorer orders of the community, fortunately for themselves, cannot afford to ruin their constitutions by the inordinate gratification of their appetites. It is one of the unenviable privileges of the comparatively wealthy, to be able to gormandize to their own destruction. Those who are not indigent, a...
