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remotely acting with sanative and curative effect, 
én the disordered corporeal system. 6. In refer-_ 
‘ence to their direct agency by palpable influence, — 
on the diseased constitution. In the subsection @ 
their approximation to moral influences is pointed 
out. These causes are the changes of the seasons, 
the transient cdnditions and vicissitudes of the 
-weather, and their vexatious discomfitures ; 5 custo- 
mary and therefore unnoticed exposure to heat, 
moisture, and electric aridity of the air, operating ) 
reeptibly, on sensitive constitations thee 
and disposition of the individual, a Peeeyiee!- 
ly on his corporeal frame. They are to be found 
also in the same customary and unnoticed expo-— 
sure to varying temperatures in apartments at 
Home or abroad, during the hours of business, plea- 
sure or pastime: all modified by the sex and age 
of the pe by his nativity to the soil, .or his: 
- foreign birth and usages, and in the latter case 
vy his greater or less approach to entire acclama- 
tion; finally, in every instance qualified by the tran-_ 
_ guil state of mind usually accompanying: a 
tency of the necessaries of life. These indirect 
physical causes, affect chiefly the constitutional 
iemperaments of keen-passioned and intellectua 
subjects; the phlegmatic and unlearned, escape 
theizinfluence. As they manifestly exert no incon- 
era ile controul over the performance | of viscer’ 1 
