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

  • Rabagliati, A. (Andrea Carlo Francesco), 1843-
Date:
[1897]
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Credit: Air, food, and exercises : an essay on the predisposing causes of disease / [A. Rabagliati]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The papers which form the basis of the following short essay originally appeared, for the most part, in The Scalpel, during the year 1896. They have been much amplified, and could indeed easily be amplified still more, as they probably will be if the essay is received with any favour. The difficulty has been not to say but to refrain from saying all that the writer thought on a subject he feels to be, if not the most important, the most important but one with which humanity can interest itself. The main proposition elucidated in the essay may be said to be this: that there are three chief pre- disposing causes of Disease, as there are, conversely, three chief predisposing causes of Health ; and that these are Air, Food, and Exercises. In other words it may in the main be said to be, that proper relations between the human organism (and no doubt other organisms also, though these are not now in question) and Air, Food, and Exercises, give as their resultant Health; while improper relations between the human organism and Air, Food, and Exercises, result in Disease. Of these three sets of causes, far the most important, in the writer’s view