Natural hygiene, or, healthy blood : the essential condition of good health and how to attain it a treatise for physicians and their patients on the predisposition to and prevention of disease / by H. Lahmann.

  • Heinrich Lahmann
Date:
1898
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Credit: Natural hygiene, or, healthy blood : the essential condition of good health and how to attain it a treatise for physicians and their patients on the predisposition to and prevention of disease / by H. Lahmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whisky or some cups of coffee less, and you will easily make up for the slight extra expense. Air is to us, what water is to the fish: we ought not only to breathe it, but to bathe in it. Our skin is an excretory organ, consequently it should be allowed to come into contact with the air. But man wears clothes, partly from custom and partly for protection. We will not discuss his reasons here; but we must point out that the clothing should not hinder the evaporative and excretive action of the skin. We excrete used-up body-material through the lungs, the kidneys, the liver, the bowels, and through the skin. If the excretion through the lungs is hindered, death ensues by carbonic-acid poisoning. If the action of the kidneys ceases, we become poisoned by urine constituents. If the formation of bile in the liver is disturbed, grave diseases and even death may be the consequence. If the excretion of those substances which should escape through the skin, is rendered impossible, eg., by covering it with a layer of varnish, death ensues owing to the so-called “ self-poisons , partly unknown as yet, such as leucomaines, ptomaines, toxins, etc. Now, it is true that our closely woven linen and cotton shirts and the dressed calico lining of our outer garments are not absolutely air-tight like the layer of varnish; one does not, therefore, die from wearing such clothing; but it is unquestionable that it gives rise to a host of diseases connected especially
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