Excerpt from Observations on Health and Disease, and on the Physical Economy of Human Life, in Natal
Disease, when not inherited, is generally the result of ignorance and carelessness. And the ignorance is not merely of the science of medicine, but of many circumstances regarding situation, and the proper care of the body, which it is a reproach to enlightened man to have charged to his account. A century hence it will be looked upon and laughed at as the barbarism of the age, just as we are accustomed to reflect upon the superstitious folly that led our immediate ancestors to believe in witchcraft, and the existence of ghosts. In Natal we shall have less excuse for not improving our knowledge in the direction pointed out, than the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere. Here, by a peculiar dispensation in animal economy, the relations between external nature, and the powers of life, are clearly and distinctly defined; and, moreover, are properly sustained by an apt adaptation of physical resistance in the several organs of the body, to the adverse influences exciting reaction. There, on the contrary, a complication of effect is produced in disease, by a failure in the integrity of textural structure; and to the ordinary causes of functional disorder is added the danger arising from actual inflammation.
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