The avoidable causes of disease, insanity, and deformity : a book for the people as well as the profession / by John Ellis.

  • Ellis, John, 1815-1896.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The avoidable causes of disease, insanity, and deformity : a book for the people as well as the profession / by John Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    CONTENTS. P E E F A C E. Diseases can generally be avoided if the requisite knowledge is pos- sessed.—Are our American People physically Degenerating ?-*-Im- portance of the Subjects Discussed.—The only True Foundation for a Real Reformation of the Evils of Society, 5 CHAPTER I. I or Mental Causes of Disease, 23 CHAPTER II. ^ Causes of Disease.—A general View, 42 I1A CHAPTER III. Abuse of the Digestive Organs.—In Eating—Drinking—Domes- tic Drugging, etc., «G0 CHAPTER IV. Violation of the Conditions Requisite for Physical Development and Preservation.—Water—Air—Sunlight.—Exercise.—Mental and Phy- sical Exercise, 105 CHAPTER V. Children.—Their Proper and Improper Management, and the Causes of their Diseases and Deformities, and the Mortality among them,.. .148