Why Die So Young? (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Why Die So Young?The theme of this book is the Healthful Life, to the end that length of well-lived days may be assured us. I, a physician, am urging my readers to emulate the oyster, which, I am more or less credibly informed, has no diseases, is either healthy or dead. Before the war a great deal was written about the efficient life. An eminent statesman, now passed away, through many years urged his compatriots to lead the strenuous life. Then there is the religious life, which should, of course, be led, the moral, the spiritual, the intellectual life, and so on. It is very likely, indeed, that all these kinds of life shall be assured him who will but live the physiological, the hygienic life.The human being in good health is pretty sure to be efficient in his business and vigorous in his employments. The cleanliness of his body will either make him godly, as that clergyman-physician, John Wesley, assured us, or as nearly so as the most of us can hope to be. The man pure in body is pretty sure - anyway, more likely than not - to be clean as to his morals. And in the sound body the intellectuals can safely be left to take care of them selves, as the ancients recognized better than we do to-day.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.