Selection from essays on health-culture and the sanitary woollen system / by Gustav Jaeger.

  • Jäger, Gustav, 1832-1917.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Selection from essays on health-culture and the sanitary woollen system / by Gustav Jaeger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HE scientific and technical discussion of my researches in the direction of Health-culture will be found in works previously published by me on allied topics, such as Die menschliche Arbeitskraft (Munich : R. Oldenbourg, 1878), Seiichenfestigkeit und Konstitutionsh-aft (Leipzig: Ernst Giinther, 1878), and Die Entdeckung der Seele (Leipzig : Ernst Giinther, 1880). In writing the essays contained in this volume, I have aimed at the practical application and diffusion of my views, and have consequently striven to adopt the plainest mode of popular exposition. Next to the soundness of my sanitary proposals—which, indeed, will speak for themselves upon a first trial—I am chiefly indebted to my popular compositions for the extraordinary rapidity, assuredly unsurpassed in its way, with which the Sanitary Woollen system has borne down every obstruction in its path, I am anxious here to caution my readers before- hand against erroneous impressions with respect to