Preventable Diseases. Woods Hutchinson

Preventable Diseases - Woods Hutchinson


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       Woods Hutchinson

      Preventable Diseases

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066240905

       CHAPTER I

       THE BODY-REPUBLIC AND ITS DEFENSE

       CHAPTER II

       OUR LEGACY OF HEALTH: THE POWER OF HEREDITY IN THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE

       CHAPTER III

       THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF DISEASE: WHAT A DOCTOR CAN TELL FROM APPEARANCES

       CHAPTER IV

       COLDS AND HOW TO CATCH THEM

       CHAPTER V

       ADENOIDS, OR MOUTH-BREATHING: THEIR CAUSE AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES

       CHAPTER VI

       TUBERCULOSIS, A SCOTCHED SNAKE

       I

       CHAPTER VII

       TUBERCULOSIS, A SCOTCHED SNAKE

       II

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE GREAT SCOURGE

       CHAPTER IX

       THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TYPHOID FEVER

       CHAPTER X

       DIPHTHERIA

       CHAPTER XI

       THE HERODS OF OUR DAY: SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, AND WHOOPING-COUGH

       CHAPTER XII

       APPENDICITIS, OR NATURE'S REMNANT SALE

       CHAPTER XIII

       MALARIA: THE PESTILENCE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS; THE GREATEST FOE OF THE PIONEER

       CHAPTER XIV

       RHEUMATISM: WHAT IT IS, AND PARTICULARLY WHAT IT ISN'T

       CHAPTER XV

       GERM-FOES THAT FOLLOW THE KNIFE, OR DEATH UNDER THE FINGER-NAIL

       CHAPTER XVI

       CANCER, OR TREASON IN THE BODY-STATE

       CHAPTER XVII

       HEADACHE: THE MOST USEFUL PAIN IN THE WORLD

       CHAPTER XVIII

       NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS

       CHAPTER XIX

       MENTAL INFLUENCE IN DISEASE, OR HOW THE MIND AFFECTS THE BODY

       INDEX

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      The human body as a mechanism is far from perfect. It can be beaten or surpassed at almost every point by some product of the machine-shop or some animal. It does almost nothing perfectly or with absolute precision. As Huxley most unexpectedly remarked a score of years ago, "If a manufacturer of optical instruments were to hand us for laboratory use an instrument so full of defects and imperfections as the human eye, we should promptly decline to accept it and return it to him. But," as he went on to say, "while the eye is inaccurate as a microscope, imperfect as a telescope, crude as a photographic camera, it is all of these in one." In other words, like the body, while it does nothing accurately and perfectly, it does a dozen different things well enough for practical purposes. It has the crowning merit, which overbalances all these minor defects, of being able to adapt itself to almost every conceivable change of circumstances.

      This is the keynote of the surviving power of the human species. It is not enough that the body should be prepared to do good work under ordinary conditions, but it must be capable, if needs be, of meeting extraordinary ones. It is not enough for the body to be able to take care of itself, and preserve a fair degree of efficiency in


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