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AN ACCOUNT OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION UPON THE HUMAN BODY.
THERE were several circumstances peculiar to the American revolution, which should be men|tioned previously to an account of the influence of the events which accompanied it, upon the human body.
1. THE revolution interested every inhabitant of the country of both sexes, and of every rank and age that was capable of reflection. An indifferent, or neutral spectator of the controversy, was scarcely to be found in any of the states.
2. THE scenes of war and government which it introduced, were new to the greatest part of the inha|bitants of the United States, and operated with all the force of novelty upon the human mind.
3. THE controversy was conceived to be the most important of any that had ever engaged the attention of mankind. It was generally believed by the friends of the revolution, that the very existence of freedom upon our globe, was involved in the issue of the con|test in favor of the United States.