Excerpt from Personal Appearances in Health and Disease
If a person wholly unacquainted with the structure of the body or with any of its functions could be confronted with a number of individuals, some of whom are what we call healthy and others what we call unhealthy, he would have very little difficulty in discriminating the one group from the other. The unhealthy ones might none of them be suffering from any grave disease, they might even be pursuing their ordinary avocations, and yet without putting a single question to them this unskilled, and possibly not very discerning, individual would have but little hesitation in making the broad distinction. He could not tell why he arrived at that conclusion, he might only say that these did not "look so well" as those; yet he would have gone through the process of picturing to himself what a healthy man should be, and would contrast his ideal with the forms before him.
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