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the fancy noticed ; also its peculiar influence on the 
chrenic complaints of children and young persons. 
An attention to this subject proved to be impor- 
tant from the records of naval and military disci- 
pline, and'by practical illustrations, derived from 
the lower and highest orders of society. 
The fourth view extends to the curative powers 
of regularity in obeying or coaxing the natural di- 
gestion and evacuations of the body ; by overcom- 
ing torpor, or sluggish action of the chylopoitic: 
viscera, shewn to aaY curatively by the associative 
actions of the mind ; and conversely, injuriously - 
and perniciously, by indulging in the dissociative 
actions ; or discomposing and distractive passions, 
emotions, propensities and occupations. The effect. 
of sea voyages and land travelling, in promoting or 
_ retarding these associative and dissociative actions 
influencing the body. The effect of bodily purifi- 
cation and dress as adjuvants to the therapeutic : 
agency of regular alvine and cystal evacuations. — 
~ Inshort, the combined effect of physical and moral 
causes in relation to the point considered, and 
proved to go hand in hand. 
‘The fifth, insists on the curative efficacy of. udi-- 
cious quietude of body, and respite from mental and 
corporeal labour; and the quantum of healthy sleep, Z 
to be measured as a medicine, by a scale graduated 
to the peculiarities of the system, and existing 
condition of the patient. An endeavour made to 
shew, that, with Vales, as. aemuuaeles causes, 
