Man and His Maladies, or the Way to Health

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Excerpt from Man and His Maladies, or the Way to Health: A Popular Handbook of Physiology and Domestic Medicine in Accord With the Advance in Medical ScienceIt is the play of Hamlet without the Prince of Den mark, the science and art of medicine without man.I have written this book in order to rectify the omis~ sion, in order to introduce man to the reader of popular medicine. I have ventured even to confer on him the leading Nile, have made him tell the story of his birth and growth, and explain the functions of, and the source of power in, that wonderful piece of mechanism, his body, to prove that he is not, as is calumniously asserted of him, the sport of malignant spirits in the guise of diseases, but the well-cared-for child of old Dame Nature, who leads him by what are called functional disorders, as tenderly and di rectl y as is possible, back to the paths of health when he has strayed therefrom, and purifies, by organic disease, his race of those least worthy of it or least fitted to enjoy it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.