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Excerpt from Gunn's Domestic Medicine, or Poor Man's Friend: Shewing the Diseases of Men, Women and Children, and Expressly Intended for the Benefit of Families; Containing a Description of the Medicinal Roots and Herbs, and How They Are to Be Used in the Cure of Diseases
Among the moral causes that have abridged the life of man, there is one which merits the attention 'of the philo sopher - it is civilization! Civilization, by polishing man, and depriving him of his primitive rudeness, seems to have enervated him - it seemsto have made him purchase the advantage, at the expense of a multitude of diseases and miseries to which the first inhabitants of the world were strangers - and with which the savages who only give way to the impulses of nature are still unacquainted. Man in associating with his fellow beings in large assemblages, seems in some measures to have relaxed the strong ties 011 his earthly existence; society - by extending the circle of his wants, by giving greater energy, to his passions and by generating those that are unknown to the man of nature.
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