The health of the senses / by H. Macnaughton Jones.

  • Macnaughton-Jones, H. (Henry), 1844-1918.
Date:
1884
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Credit: The health of the senses / by H. Macnaughton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the young. The thought may be encouraged that physiological precepts can be broken with impunity, and a carelessness of attention to them engendered in after-life. The Church in the matter of Public Health.— And here, as a physician, while acknowledging the responsibility that attaches itself to every physician as a guardian of the physical health of the public, I may perhaps, without being deemed presumptuous, say a word on the duty of those who have undertaken the care of our psychical nature. I may throw out the hint, that the golden opportunities of restraining hurtful practices which are offered to members of the clerical profession might be more freely * and frequently made use of. True it is that, in the great majority of mstances, they are not conversant with the laws which regulate the physical changes taking place in our bodies, and hence can hardly realise the important influence which those laws exert on our mental state, and hence on our moral life. The absence of physiological knowledge in the ranks of the recog- nised moral teachers of the people is to be deplored on more grounds than the sanitary one. I re- member reading, some time since, a charge of the