Excerpt from The Physiology and Hygiene of the House in Which We Live
The body, in this book, has been likened, in its various parts, to a house, and it may be truthfully claimed that no other of mans dwellings has as many modern conveniences as his body. There is nothing that his ingenuity has yet devised for the safety and comfort of his home that he may not find foreshadowed, and usually bettered, in the body. Where, for instance, can you find an automatic steam or hot-water heater that will perform its work as well as the thermogenetic system of the body? Where can the block or building be found that is as well sewered and ventilated? Furthermore, he finds in this house of ours elevators, telegraphs, and telephones innumerable, also pictures, photographs, library and music-rooms, and a dining-room from twenty to thirty feet long. But the best of all are the hosts of trained and uncomplaining servants that go with the premises; porters, cooks, waiters, messengers, photographers, carpenters and joiners, are all found on the estate, and ready to work without other wages than food and lodgings for their life-time, and they never leave the property on any pretext whatever.
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