JCjQ Gnjeoiis Oxyd of Azol. 



We may take the prefent opportunity to mention, that we 

 underftand Dr. Beddoes means foon to give Lediires on the 

 Laws of minimal Nature, and on the Means of f referring the 

 Svjlem from Injury upon the mojl important Occajions of com- 

 mon Life. 



" A popular expofition of the principles of the animal eco- 

 n»my, with their application to the purpofes of individual 

 and domeftic welfare, upon a plan widely different from that 

 of any exifting publication, has lona; been fcen neccffary by 

 many people. 



** Heretofore an acquaintance with the caufes of his per- 

 fonal condition has feldom been numbered among the ac- 

 complijhments of the fcholar, or the qualifications with which 

 the man of bufinefs is fitted out for fuccefs in the world : yet 

 it will be confeflcd, that neither fuccefs in bufinefs, nor pro- 

 Htlency in the fciences accounted liberal, arc feparately fuf- 

 ficient for rendering the condition of human life defirable j 

 and, in faiSl, to endeavour, by any combination of thefe ma- 

 terials, to conftruft a fvftem of perfonal happinefs, is to pro- 

 ieft an edifice which fliall ftand fecure without a foundation, 

 Of a truth, fo long and fo generally neglefted, a portion of the 

 public, it is believed, begins to feel that degree of convicfion 

 ■which operates upon conduct. In this belief, the prefent 

 opportunity of inftru6tion is offered to thofe who may be 

 defirous of it. 



*' Numbers fall viftims to their own impatience under 

 illnefs, or to the wavering conduft of their friends. Fre- 

 quently on the onfet of dangerous difeafes, people, by fuffer- 

 in"" themfelves to be amufed by trifling domefiic expedients, 

 lofe an opportunity which no medical (kill can ever retrieve. 

 Upon thefe evils the prevalence of jufter ideas would a6l as 

 a check. Nor is it paradoxical to fuppofe that the mortality 

 among infants would be fmalle;*, and debility of conftitution 

 at all periods of life more rare, if parents (however inftrufted 

 in other things) were not in common nearly upon a level 

 with nurfes in that which it fo much imports them to pof- 

 fefs — an acquaintance with the powers that operate to the 

 injury or advantage, the deftruition or prefervation, of the 

 obie^is of their afte«5tion," 



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