Hygiene, or, The principles of health : adapted to the requirements of the Science and art department, South Kensington / by John J. Pilley.

  • Pilley, John J.
Date:
1888
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    HYGIENE, OR THK PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH. -4- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Hygiene: what it Teaches.—Preventable Diseases and their Results.— °Need for Knowledge of Laws of Health.—The Study of Hygiene.— How to Keep Well.—Waste of the Body.—Decay and Repair.— Uses of Food. HYGIENE is the science which treats of the health of the body. It deals with those causes which are ever at work reducing the vigour of the body, rendering nutrition, development, and growth imperfect, and generally producing such effects as predispose our bodies to the attacks of disease. In other words, it has to do with those natural laws through ignorance, carelessness, or disregard, of which we invariably shorten our own lives, and very frequently the lives of those around us. From statistics we learn that a very large number 6i victims are aimually carried off by preventable diseases. But though we may know the number of those who die, statistics reveal nothing of the suffering, pain, and misery which attend and follow this wholesale destruction of life. The painful fact of the immense yearly sacrifice of human lives, the result of ignorance, selfishness, and carelessness, must be too well known to all. To this must be added an immense amount of silent suffering, of which we have no record, and the extent of which many can scarcely imagine. We can form only a faint idea of the magnitude of the preventable misery thus produced by careful observation of, and intercourse with, the neglected classes of our foUow-nien. The strong man, the breadwinner of the family, whose health is ruined; the fatherless children compelled early, when