Constitution and health / by Raymond Pearl.

  • Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940
Date:
1933
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Constitution and health / by Raymond Pearl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .^aivt-ar......... (*f PREsemto \A ,%{ Sy THE editor of ) ’ ly^A8' M'J' DISEASE lOlCM. 0 - -»W?».'»naKcy^ The idea that a man’s biological con- stitution—his morphological structure, his physiological functioning, and his mental and emotional make-up—has something to do with his state of health in general and his illnesses in particular is as old as medicine itself. Indeed some of the earliest writers on such matters, whose works may be regarded as still maintaining in some degree an unbroken continuity with the present-day body of medical doctrine, appear to have had a clearer insight than characterizes a not incon- siderable part of the thinking of physicians to-day as to the importance of the innate constitution of the individual as a causal factor in determining his state of health. The Airs, Waters, and Places of Hippocrates as an example is, above everything else, a biological discussion of the inseparable effects of nature and nurture (constitution and environment) in making individuals