Bagg on Magnetism, or the Doctrine of Equilibrium: Being an Attempt to Prove That Not Only the Health of Vegetables and Animals, but All Systems and Principles in Nature, Depend Upon an Equilibrium of - Hardcover

Joseph H. Bagg

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ISBN 10: 0656425660 ISBN 13: 9780656425662

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Excerpt from Bagg on Magnetism, or the Doctrine of Equilibrium: Being an Attempt to Prove That Not Only the Health of Vegetables and Animals, but All Systems and Principles in Nature, Depend Upon an Equilibrium of Action Between Two Extremes

Tns ongm' of the follow' 8 may be attributed to an universally confessed mpmwleqw want of general principles'to guide us in the practice of the heal ing art. From witnessing, in a more or less extensive practice, for the last twenty-five years, all kinds of dis eases attempted to be cured by one kind of medicines, and one kind of disease cured by all kinds of medicines, the diseases, being as different from each other as the poles, and the remedies, many of them,'apparently also opposite in effect, with as numerous a corresponding va riety of advocates for each, we were led to believe, that, all, Operated in one uniform manner, agreeable to some' general law hitherto not understood, and the result of our investigations has justified our most sanguine anti cipations. The cause of animal life and the law by which it is governed, has never as yet, been satisfacto rily ascertained, much less demonstrated. While one class of phylmphers have accounted for it on mechan ical an other has on chemical principles; a third has attributed to the union of the two, while a fourth has denied the: whole, and contend that the vital principle is peculiar to itself and dependent on neither. The ohm ject of this work is to rove that not only all absolute mechanics! Force andfc emionl affinity, but all other mos tions, actions, and effects in nature, in compositions and, decompositions, as well as the vital principle of vegeta bles and animals is owing to one and the same cause and.

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