...demarcation may be drawn. 'The little regard,' says a recent and intelligent writer, 'which has hitherto been paid to the laws of the human constitution, as the...knowledge of the conditions which regulate the healthy action of the bodily organs, may be applied in the prevention, detection, and treatment of disease,...

...the facetious remark of the " Household Philosopher." In a very sensible preface, Mr. Combe remarks that, notwithstanding the direct uses to which a knowledge of the conditions which regulate the healthy action of the bodily organs may be applied in the prevention, the detection, and cure of disease, there...

...reward our exertions than has ever yet beeu experienced. The little regard which has hitherto been paid to the laws of the human constitution, as the...knowledge of the conditions which regulate the healthy action of the bodily organs may be applied, in the prevention, detection, and treatment of disease,...

...-what Dr. Andrew Combe says when writing on this subject : " The little regard -which has hitherto boon paid to the laws of the human constitution, as the true basis on which an attempt to improve the condition of man ought to rest, will be obvious from the fact, that notwithstanding...

...says, in his "Physiology applied to Health and Education:" "The little regard that has hitherto been paid to the laws of the human constitution as the...knowledge of the conditions which regulate the healthy action of the bodily organs may be applied in the prevention, detection, and treatment of disease,...

...purposes ; little regard was then paid to the laws of the human constitution — the true basis upon which our attempts to improve the condition of man ought to rest. The stethoscope is a modern appliance ; it was sneered at by some at the time of its introduction....

...purposes ; little regard was then paid to the laws of the human constitution — the true basis upon which our attempts to improve the condition of man ought to rest. The stethoscope is a modern appliance ; it was sneered at by some at the time of its introduction....

...thus described by the eminent Dr. Combe : " The little regard," he says, " which has hitherto been paid to the laws of the human constitution, as the...knowledge of the conditions, which regulate the healthy action of the bodily organs, may be applied in the prevention, detection, and treatment of disease,...

...physiological Methodism if you will. Combe's belief that "the laws of the human constitution" must serve as "the true basis on which our attempts to improve the condition of man ought to rest" was held by many in the ranks of health campaigners. "Extend your next walk," one exercise promoter...