A Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species, at All Ages: And of the Diseases and Casualties by Which They Are Destroyed or Annoyed. Illustrated With Charts and Tables

· 1829

ONE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN LONDON: MEMBER OF SEVERAL LITERARY SOCIETIES, &C. A Young and celebrated Prince, before his first Military Expedition, interrogated one of his experienced Relations and Instructors, How he should conduct himself to be respected and obeyed by his Army?—“To know more of the Profession than any of your Soldiers,” was the sage Reply; and to the renowned Cyrus, the Conqueror of the Babylonians. This Maxim is, in some Degree, applicable and pertinent throughout all the Gradations and Scale of Society. A Prince, born to the Throne of a mighty Empire, pre-eminent in its Political Constitution, and in the universal Range of the Arts and Sciences, is urged by…

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