The American practice of medicine / by Dr. Law.

  • Law, Dr.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Credit: The American practice of medicine / by Dr. Law. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being, it lollows, as a matter of course, that a violation of those laws would result in an opposite condition, a condition which, instead of securing happiness, would inevitably ba productive of misery and suffering. Ihe evidence to sustain the above is to be found in the constitutional wreck of at least nine-tenths of the human family, for such is at present the deplorable condition of at least the civilised portion of mankind, that not more than one in ten can say that he is in perfect health. In view of the fact that many of the causes of disease, physical and mental debility, are well known to all intelligent persons, our allusions to them have been brief, while we hasten to notice those which are not so generally considered by the mass of mankind to have the effect of undermining the constitution, destroying health and shortening life. The first cause of constitutional debility and predisposition to disease is hereditary taint, a transmitted tendency from parents to their children, even to the third and fourth generations. There are other causes which constantly operate toward the destruction of health: such as unwholesome food, a want of sufficient exercise, impure air, intemperance in eating and drinking, the excessive or abnormal action of the animal passions, together with the poisonous and destructive means used as medicine (to correct some trifling deviation from health), which have placed man in a condition so completely