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Excerpt from God in Disease: Or the Manifestations of Design in Morbid Phenomena The view of disease presented in the following pages is believed to be altogether original. Most persons are in the habit of admitting, that the visitation of sickness, is the result of the direct appointment of God; but scarcely any one appears to think that such an admission implies the existence of features stamped upon the dispensation, similar to what are to be found in other parts of the Divine proceedings and that are eminently deserving of being studied carefully. The present work is intended to direct attention to the subject, and to unfold, by an analysis of the phenomena of disease, the evidence of design, contrivance, and beneficence, that lie scattered in profusion over every page of this volume of natural history. In executing his task, the author has not hesitated to avail himself of all the light that the progress of pathological science in recent times has placed at his command, while he has endeavoured to guard against introducing into his argument every thing that persons of the most fastidious taste can properly object to. He has also avoided, as far as possible, the use of technical terms, so as to render the work easily intelligible to every class of ordinary readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.