Avenues to health / [Eustace Hamilton Miles].

  • Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948
Date:
1902
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Credit: Avenues to health / [Eustace Hamilton Miles]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    outlined in Chapter VI. ; let the readers who wish to begin gradually, begin with some such hour, modifying it to suit their own conditions. Then let them fairly try as many of the other avenues as they shall think fit, not walking along all on the same day —that would be an absurd start—but testing them gradually by that personal experience which alone can give us certain knowledge. The task may be long and not altogether easy.. Yet I can suggest no other way to the desired end, to full health of blood and body, of thought and mind. Each reader must settle with his own conscience how far it is his duty to work for better and fuller health ; only let him remember that his particular experiences, whether successful or not, and especially his particular devices, may prove of the greatest possible service to others. I suppose it has been some such idea that has encouraged me to experiment in many ways, and to make the results known to the public, not that the public would thereby learn a general truth, but that it might thereby be saved a certain amount of haphazard and senseless experimentation, and consequent waste of money, time, and energy. Every one knows that disease is wont to use some one avenue of attack, rather than all the avenues at once. This individual, for instance, may be open to disease through the lungs ; that individual through the liver ; another through the kidneys. The whole body may ultimately be affected, and the whole body may die, but it is the weakest point that will have been the avenue of approach, the point of attack. It has not yet been generally recognised, I think, that a similar principle is true of health. And yet it is obvious that, in thousands of examples, health has entered by some one avenue only, or else by