The New-England Invalid (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The provisions under which the Shattuck lectureship was established specify Historical and other essays on the climate of Massachusetts or the diseases of its inhabitants, or such other subjects as said Society or its government may select.

These alternatives are surely liberal enough, and the committee have given me not the least hint to limit my choice, but it certainly seems in accordance with the wishes of the founder that some matter of decided local interest should be discussed in the discourse provided for by his liberality.

Common report and more or less jocose remarks attach the name of New England to one at least of the supposable causes of nervous affections. How justly is another mat ter, but it hardly requires this facetious etiology to make it appropriate for me to choose as my subject one which must have for every one of you, not strangely and exceptionally favored by fortune, a deep professional and often personal interest.

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