Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and sanitary regulations laid down for their observance by these visionary writers— would remain for ever healthy, no disease of any kind ever finding habitation in that happy land. Granting that it were possible to make all ills that vex us here to cease in the way proposed, it is open to doubt whether the very measures themselves which these theorists assert are necessary to be taken in order to avoid the calamities with which we are here beset,—it is to be questioned, I say, whether the conditions under which we should be permitted to reside in Hygeia would not prove to be so exceedingly irksome and harassing, that life, even in that model city, would hardly be worth living. We have far too much worry and bother already if we pay heed to the warnings, and endeavour to follow the directions of the sanitary scientists of the day ; and how we manage to support life at all is most astonish- ino-, if all the alarming statements are true which are made by the Avriters in the medical papers; for, according to them, there is scarcely any article of food, solid