The Inequalities in the Art of Healing

I mean natural infirmities, infancy, old age, and sickness of every kind. The last chiefly attends man living in a state of society. It is observable that the mother being able to carry her child about with her wherever she goes, can perform the duty of a nurse with a great deal less trouble than the females of many other animals. With old men who stir and perspire but little, the demand for food diminishes with their abilities to provide it. As a savage life would exempt them from the gout in the rheumatism, and old age is of all ills that which human assistance is least capable of alleviating, they would at last go off without its