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influence of temperance and intemperance of what- 
ever kind, vices, habits, and necessary occupations 
of life, on the general system, leading to a con- 
sideration of the manner in which these, or most 
of them, may usefully be enlisted as therapeutic 
agents. Tlustrations and proofs adduced from - 
savage and civilized life, from the histories of mil- 
. itary campaigns, naval enterprises, and the pa- 
cific attitude of national, sectional and municipal 
i The min influence of music, on valetudinge 
rian constitutions, considered: the invigorating — 
and curative power of its practical exercise illus- 
trated and proved. The like influence of the 
higher spheres of belle-letter exercises, on the dis- 
eles ey of the talented and —— inte 
puter —_ —_ a word, an » attempt 
made to prove that the physician too often resorts 
to the materia medica, proper, for his medicaments, 
instead of drawing largely on those kinder and 
efal, and equally curative remedies, 
whieh a rellective meeting of the moral conditior 
fluenc -would.plnad si his diapoaal:-a Z 
me ‘Under this section two surveys are iaien of 
physical causes: a. in relation to their influence 
on a. the moral disposition of man, ieotirntie sca ; 
