Air, food and exercises : an essay on the predisposing causes of disease / By A. Rabagliati.

  • Rabagliati, Andrea, 1843-1930.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Air, food and exercises : an essay on the predisposing causes of disease / By A. Rabagliati. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    period between the publication of the second edition and any new one, I thought I ought to appeal to the medical profession directly and solely, before appealing to the public in a matter in which both the profession and the public are most deeply interested, and which seems to me indeed to be of the most vital importance to both. Accordingly I wrote in 1901 a book entitled Aphorisms, Definitions, Reflections and Paradoxes : Medical, Surgical, and Dietetic. This being sent to various medical journals, elicited a few reviews, some depreciatory, and some highly laudatory; but on the whole the book fell flat, some critics even hinting that the language was too technical, a rather curious criticism of a book addressed and dedicated to a learned profession. This being so, I had to consider what I should do. It is rather a fine point to say what a medical man ought to do when he is not attached to a medical school, and yet feels that he has something very important to say on professional subjects. The direct appeal that I made to the medical profession fell on deaf ears. A few private letters of a more or less appreciative kind did not seem to me a sufficient answer to the question I addressed to my colleagues —How is it that when we know as physiologists that there is twice or thrice as much lymph in the body as there is of blood, no use whatever is made of this fact in medical practice ? This overplus of lymph collected in the connective tissue of the body appears to me to be the basis on which the