Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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Credit: Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    important quality which tends so largely to increase the food raised from the ground? Perhaps, (as has been suggested) the noxiousness is even a matter of special design, to induce us to put away decaying organic substances into the earth, where they are calculated to be so useful. Now man has reason to enable him to see that such substances are beneficial under one arrangement, and noxious in the other. He is, as it were, commanded to take the right method in dealing with them. In point of fact, men do not always take this method, but allow accumulations of noxious matter to gather close about their dwellings, where they generate fevers and agues. But their doing so may be re- garded as only a temporary exception from the operation of mental laws, the general tendency of which is to make men adopt the proper measures. And these measures will probably be in time uni- versally adopted, so that one extensive class of diseases will be altogether or nearly abolished. Another large class of diseases spring from mis- management of our personal economy. Eating to excess, eating and drinking what is noxious, dis- regard to that cleanliness which is necessary for the right action of the functions of the skin, want of fresh air for the supply of the lungs, undue,
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