Untitled article by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, September 24, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 15

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

By John Norton Loughborough

This work, which has occupied considerable of my spare time for the past year, is at last written, and placed in the hands of the printers, who will probably have it ready for delivery in a few weeks. I have been broken off by cares and affliction, or the work would have been completed ere this.

To those who have subscribed, and have patiently waited for the book, I would say, I hope the book has been made enough better, by taking more time in its execution, to pay for the delay. Instead of writing a work of 150 pages with no illustrations, as I first proposed, the work contains nineteen illustrations, and about 200 pages. It is proposed to have it in two forms only; paper covers, and muslin binding. The paper covers for a cheap book, and the muslin a durable book for those who wish to read it many times.

It is not a book on the treatment of all diseases, but as its title page states, a “Treatise on the Structure, Functions, and Care of the Human System.” It will undoubtedly be followed in due time, by another of similar size on the specific treatment of different diseases of human kind. We trust this work may prove a source of good to those who peruse its pages, and follow its instructions. And that we may be led, as we view the wisdom of God in our formation, to exclaim with the Psalmist, “O Lord, how manifold are thy works, in wisdom hast thou made them all.” J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.