AN
ESSAY
ON
DISEASES
INCIDENTAL TO
Literary _and_ Sedentary Persons.
WITH
PROPER RULES for preventing their fatal
Consequences.
AND
INSTRUCTIONS for their CURE.
By S. A. TISSOT, M. D.
Professor of PHYSICK at BERNE.
Now first translated into ENGLISH.
LONDON:
Printed for EDWᵈ. and CHARLES DILLY, in the Poultry.
MDCCLXVIII.
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TO
The CONSULS, QUÆSTORS, TRIBUNES, and other illustrious and great Men of
the senatorial Order at _Berne_.
I am indebted to you for many great obligations, most illustrious and
great men; and lately you have done me the honour to confer a most noble
and unexpected favour upon me. It is but just that I should by words
thank those to whom I am incapable of making any other return; and such a
testimony of gratitude I will shew them as long as I live. It is proper
that, being publickly graced by your favours, I should make a public
acknowledgment, and give some pledge of my gratitude, however mean and
inadequate. Receive therefore, most illustrious and excellent men,
and deign to receive favourably, this first though feeble proof of my
diligence in my new office. May the Almighty enable me to promote the
public interest of the academy by more considerable and more valuable
productions, and may the hopes which you have conceived of me, venerable
fathers of your country, and the hopes which the people have conceived
concerning this new professorship, be fulfilled to general satisfaction.
May the propitious Deity likewise favour all your public and private
undertakings, and shower all his choicest blessings both upon you and
yours, and the whole commonwealth. And cease not, reverend fathers, to
make happy, by your constant benevolence and favour, a man entirely
devoted to the service of your excellencies.