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THE JOURNAL

OF

HEALTH AND DISEASE.

Πάντα δοκιμάζετε, τὸ καλὸν κατέχετε.

"Prove all things: hold fast the kalon, (i. e. good, by being suitable.)"'--PAUL.

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SHERWOOD AND CO., 23, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1846.

ADDRESS.

VOLUME I. is completed. A year's labour has been gone through. What numerous thoughts have been transferred from mind to mind! Have they done good? stands forth the query. Truly they have, and, for this good reason, that the volume abounds in truth. Truth is the fountain through which good comes for truth is Heaven unveiled,-God's laws opened up to human vision and leading man to all useful practices.

This volume one will stand its ground. It has many promises fulfilled in it. Its strenuous supporters know that it originated in the desire, expressed by many, to have the lectures on Physiology in relation to the influence of Parents on the Offspring, delivered by Dr. Epps at various literary institutions, as permanent guides. This volume will present to them the substance of these lectures, not clothed in the living vivacity of lecture but sobered into the more didactic form of essay.

Some points, namely, the influence of the MOTHER on the OFFSPRING in the various stages of the relationship in which she is placed to the child, -the

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