Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has lost many of its charms, owing to a secret suspicion that there may yet he hirkiug in some hidden corner an nndis- covered cesspool, and to an overpowering idea, encouraged by a smattering of science and a mild course of medical reading, that death is waiting round the corner in particles of dust, in fever germs floating about the air, or in draughts, from which the best-con- structed house is seldom free. Ah well! we must make the best of life under its existing conditions; and I am of opinion that these savants, instead of scaring the public with such alarming- outcries, might render better service in showing : — How iu safety best we may Compose our present evils, with regard Of what we are, and where.