Health and disease, (in English and Welsh) = Iechyd ac afiechyd, (yn Saes'neg a Chymraeg) / by John Lewis Prichard.

Date:
1872
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Credit: Health and disease, (in English and Welsh) = Iechyd ac afiechyd, (yn Saes'neg a Chymraeg) / by John Lewis Prichard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    When the nervous system receives so much force as to maintain its reserve, and to sustain a mean resistance, there is perfect action and health. In natural sleep, the exhausted nervous system is storing its reserve; when it is fully charged there is resist- ance and awakeniug. It should be the aim of every physician and surgeon in the curing of every disease, so to regulate force and restore perfect health. Force emanates from the Divine will, operating on inorganic matter, is manifested as electricity, magnet- ism, gravitation, heat, light, chemical action, and mechanical motion. When directed through organised structures it effects the operations of growth and development, and is metamorphosed, through the agency of the machinery thus generated, into muscu- lar power, nervous or mental energy. A healthy man of average size requires every twenty-four hours about six pounds and a half of food ; that is, about twenty-four ounces of solids, and seventy-four ounces of liquids. The population of the world is estimated at 1,200,000,000. Above 2,400 die hourly; upwards of 60,000 die daily; and more than 28,000,000 die annually. In every minute there are about seventy births, and about sixty-five deaths. The food of man varies according to climate. Nearly 5,000.000 live on Indian corn, on the Continent. About 300,000,000 live on rice in India, parts of Asia, and Africa. Nearly 600,000,000 live on wheat, oats, and rye bread in Europe and America. The rest live on animal food. Farmers live longest, next lawyers, next doctors; the shortest lived are people in largo cities. In a man who lives one hundred years, the heart beats 3,650,080,000 times.