Rheumatism: its nature, causes, and cure : gout: its nature, causes, cure, and prevention / by James Alexander.

  • Alexander, James.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Rheumatism: its nature, causes, and cure : gout: its nature, causes, cure, and prevention / by James Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    dispute the propriety of our availing ourselves of this knowledge, as it is the paramount duty of every man, whatever his station, to endeavour to be well that he may be useful. “ What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed P—a beast, no more,— Sure, He, that made us \dth such large discourse. Looking before and after, gave ns not That capability and God-like reason To fust in us, unused.” Iklany men will say that they cannot aspire to be useful members of society—they are content to be ornamental; disease, which is destructive of utility, is equally so of beauty. Health is the natural, disease the unnatural, condition of animal life. To be conversant with the pheno- mena of disease, we must first be acquainted with the laws of health. An acquaintance with the contents of some one or more of the best popular works on physiology and chemistry should form part of the education of every man. Apart from the interest which attaches itself to a knowledge of the laws by means of which “ we live and breathe and have our being,” it is surely worth something to know how to keep this mortal tenement of clay in a state of good and habitable repair, fit to discharge all the duties and appreciate all the pleasures of this