General debility and defective nutrition : their causes, consequences, and treatment / by Alfred Smee.

  • Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877.
Date:
1862
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Credit: General debility and defective nutrition : their causes, consequences, and treatment / by Alfred Smee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. ON THE CAUSES OF DEBILITY. Causes of debility, 43—Irregularities of food, 44—Diminution of food, 45—Excess of diink, 46—Brewers' employes, 47— Signs of intemperance, 48—Value of intemperate lives, 49 —Signs of intemperance permanent, 50—Opium eating, 51 —Smoking, 52—Mind diverted from food, 53—Debility from egesta, 54—Debility from acute disease, 55—From chronic disease, 56—From external influences, 57, 58— Debility from a want of rest, 59—Debility from exertion, GO —From anxiety, 61—From deficiency of work, 62—From constitutional causes, 63, 64—From injuries, 65—From railroad travelling, 66. 43. As manifold are tlie conditions of vigour and health, so complex are the causes of debility and want of strength; but they may be classed generally under seven great heads. 1. Causes emanating from irregularities of food. 2. Causes emanating from irregularities of the egesta. 3. Causes emanating from diseases. 4. Causes ema- nating f:om external influences. 5. Causes ema- nating from irregularities of rest and sleep. 6.