[How the body may be influenced by the mind in sickness and health] / by Henry Simpson.

  • Simpson, Henry.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Credit: [How the body may be influenced by the mind in sickness and health] / by Henry Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    HOW THE BODY MAY BE INFLUENCED BY THE MIND IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH. BY HENRY SIMPSON, M.D. Lond., Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Consulting Physician to the Manchester Southern Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children. OU are probably aware, my friends, that the lecture I have the \ honour of giving to-night is one of a series delivered under the auspices of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association. This Association is composed of a number of gentlemen interested in the health of the great community around us. Now it is well known that many of those who die year by year, might have lived if they had been placed in circumstances more favourable to health, and that numbers of deaths take place from what are called, and truly called, preventable causes. This Association wishes to learn all that can be learned as to these preventable causes of death, and to use any knowledge that may be gained, in the way most likely to be for the benefit of our fellow-citizens. Various modes have been adopted. One way has been to bring under the notice of our corporate authorities any unhealthy conditions which it has been thought they might be able to remedy. And when we consider the great powers which cor- porations such as those of Manchester and Salford possess— how they control the supply of water—how they have charge of the drainage, and of the streets, and many other matters, such as the smoke nuisance and those arising from noxious manufactures— It is easy to see what serious responsibility rests on the gentlemen who are members of these corporations; and we must hope that these responsibilities are in some degree felt by our town coun- cillors, and by those who drive about in blue and red cabs on election day.