Excerpt from The Ten Laws of Health
To prevent disease, the first necessity is to know what produces it. It is the business of the physician to understand what are the causes of disease, and he ought, therefore, to be the most capable of directing how they can be avoided. Very many persons, evidently impressed with this view, are in the habit of complaining that physicians do not endeavor to instruct their fellow-beings as they ought, in reference to the preservation of health. While it is true that nearly all the popular books on the subject of health have been written by those whose knowledge of disease is mainly theoretical, yet in the accumulation of sanitary knowledge physicians have been the only contributors. Especially in recent times and in every part of the world have they been investigating, with great care, the causes which produce disease, and the conditions which prevent it. On these topics, their literature contains an immense accumulation of facts, and of a value to humanity almost immeasurable.
By the light of these collected facts, and the conclusions they are capable of establishing, all uncertainty in reference to the preventability of nearly every form of disease must disappear, and the laws pertaining to health be capable of definite settlement; so that men and women, by living accordantly with them, may live as they ought to live, free from disease, and die as they ought to die, from old age, and not by the violent and unnatural process of disease.
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