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SYLLABUS, &c. 



THE principal objects of this course of Lectures are, to diffuse 

 as widely as possible throughout the community a knowledge of 

 certain general principles connected with the development of the 

 animal frame, with the applicability of these principles to the 

 e very-day business of life, the promotion of health and happiness; 



To limit the evils of empyricism, whether in medicine or mo- 

 rals, by giving such as have never devoted themselves to the study 

 of the physical nature of man, some idea of the complexity of 

 those vital operations which the most ignorant are ever the most 

 ready to regulate and amend: 



To point out the sources of certain popular errors in relation 

 to physical and physico-moral education, social opinions, and even 

 criminal jurisprudence: 



To explain the physiological limits of certain sciences (so styled) 

 which have attracted vast attention in recent years, but have been 

 pushed beyond reasonable bounds by their enthusiastic advocates; 

 and 



To facilitate the studies of those individuals of either sex who 

 wish to become acquainted with the art of promoting health and 

 mental vigor, by giving them such broad outlines of the science 

 of life as will render intelligible and interesting the otherwise dry 

 and seemingly unconnected details contained in most of the po- 

 pular treatises on anatomy and physiology. 



As it is not the intention of the lecturer to appear learned, but 

 to be useful, the style of most of the lectures is simple and con- 

 versational. Technicalities are carefully avoided as far as pos- 

 sible, and when indispensably employed they are fully explained. 



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