London as it is : being a series of observations on the health, habits, and amusements of the people / by John Hogg.

  • Hogg, John, M.D.
Date:
1837
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: London as it is : being a series of observations on the health, habits, and amusements of the people / by John Hogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    standing in what manner many causes that are prejudicial to health may operate. Health has always been considered one of life’s best blessings, a boon beyond all price, and a reward to virtue and temper- ance. The ancients went so far as to deify it, and the goddess Hygeia had her temples, statues, and emblems, wherever the heathen mythology prevailed. Health delights in simplicity, and prefers the frugality and the innocence of a rural life to the luxury and dissipation of a town. It is, however, wonderfully tractable, and adapts itself to climate, habits, and customs of every shade and description: it agrees best with regu- larity of habits, but it endures excesses with great patience; in young men it blooms often under the most adverse circumstances, and maintains its balance in spite of the many irregularities of youth ; when most neglected, it is often a most constant attend- ant, it endures the heat of tropical climates to a considerable extent, but it actually flourishes in the extreme cold of the arctic regions. It will bear almost constant expo-