How to fight influenza and allied diseases / by Robert Bell.

  • Bell, Robert, 1845-1926.
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to fight influenza and allied diseases / by Robert Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the programme; yes, a very important part indeed. Let me therefore insist upon everyone who is desirous of maintaining his health in such a condition as will enable him successfully to combat disease, to bestow unremitting atten¬ tion upon this simple yet essential sanitary prin¬ ciple. But before leaving this subject let us for a moment glance at its bearings upon the economy at large. If we consider that a vitiated blood supply must necessarily exert a baneful influence upon the nervous apparatus by sup¬ plying it with a poisonous instead of a pure nourishing fluid, we are bound to acknowledge that it is impossible for it to perform its other duties properly. Now, we know that every organ of the body has conferred upon it a cer¬ tain functional activity dependent upon the stimulus and energy conveyed to it by the ner¬ vous apparatus, which may aptly be compared to the driving power of an engine. If then this be interfered with by any untoward circum¬ stance, will not this power be diminished pro rata ? And if its energy is diminished, will not the functional activity of the various organs be diminished also, and as a natural sequence the healthy condition of the individual be reduced ? In this way, then, we perceive the body is not