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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1853 Excerpt:... and when doing his work he should invoke the Divine benediction thereon, as has been the custom of many of our best physicians, while employing the greatest skill; and certainly, "when he has done his utmost for his own safety, then is the time to invoke the blessing of Heaven, to give effect to his exertions." No language can be quoted, more appropriate to this subject, than that in which the Bishop of London addressed his clergy, in 1847:--"As, on the one hand, it is clearly one of your first duties, to impress on the minds of your people, whatever be their condition in life, the necessity of an implicit trust in God, and of an entire submission to his will; so, on the other hand, you will discharge an office of real piety and charity, in urging upon them the importance of removing all those physical causes, which invite the approach of disease, and aggravate its malignity; and, in endeavouring to persuade them, that, while we may not look for a blessing upon the resources or contrivances of human skill, if they are not employed in humble reliance on the power and goodness of God, so, neither, if we neglect to use all probable and practical means of prevention and preservation, have we any reason to expect, that He will especially interfere, to rescue us from the consequences of our own negligence." The Law of Elevation suggests some important and practical directions which cannot be given better than in the language of Mr. Farr, by whom it has been expounded. 1. "Persons who have the means may, by an early removal from an infected district, always find safety in such salubrious districts as the tables show had deaths neither from diarrhoea nor cholera in the year 1849 Many persons left London and went as usual to the sea side. This was an error. Sometime...