Philosophy of health : natural principles of health and cure ; or, health and cure without drugs. Also, the moral bearings of erroneous appetites / by L. B. Coles.

  • Larkin B Coles
Date:
1853
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    INTRODUCTION. There is scarcely any subject so universally neg- lected as a knowledge of the laws of health and life. All people love to be well, and dread to be sick; yet take little or no pains to economize their health or to ward off disease. They indulge their appetites and inclinations in violation of the laws of health, until they are overtaken with the penalty which the Great Author of our being has affixed to them, in the form of disease; and then know not why or wherefore they are ill, or how to recover. It may, with propriety, be said, that nineteen cases out of twenty, if not ninety-nine out of a hundred, of the ills which annoy mankind, especially those of a chronic character, might be avoided. We might as well enjoy health, as a general rule, as to be groan- ing under pains and diseases. Though ^e might not be able to repel measles, small-pox, scarlet fever, and many other contagious or epidemic diseases, yet nearly all chronic diseases, and a very large proportion of those which are acute, might be prevented; and even those which could not be avoided, — for instance, that fearful malady, the cholera, — by habitual obe- dience to law, would be made of much milder form. Very little is known by the people at large on this Bubjeot, and what is known is VCTy lightly appreciated.
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