Excerpt from The Maintenance of Health: A Medical Work for Lay Readers
Health consists of a balance betwixt the various parts of the organism, in power as well as in function. Health is no more the endowment of the man whose brain, active and restless tyrannizes, in reiterated demands, over the body, its patient, enduring bondslave, than it is the possession of another person, whose inefficient digestion leaves the system ill-fed and famished, the prey of depression or neuralgia. Neither can the idea of robust health, the full-fed, bright-eyed, glowing-skinned, redundant health of writers and painters, be associated with the dweller in cities, the pale-faced spare handicraftsman of Southwark.
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