Identifier: annalsofhygiene1118penn (find matches)
Title: Annals of hygiene
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. State Board of Health
Subjects: Hygiene Public Health
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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d he so modify his life in accord with commonsense, that nature can have a chance, then drugs will provemost valuable aids to the curative and preventive powers andefforts of nature. Now, we have the whole question explicitlystated in these few words, yet Carlyles fool will still continuechasing the igiiis fatuus of a specific cure, millions dying in theeffort to accomplish the obviously impossible ; to live in opposi-tion to natural laws, and by the aid of some drug to cheat natureof her revenge. Nature is not one of Carlyles fools, and hewho makes the mistake of thinking that he can hoodwink herwill pay a fearful penalty for his folly. Impure Water and Disease. IT is not often that one can have presented so graphically thedirect relationship between impure water and disease, as isshown in the accompanying diagram issued by the Depart-ment of Health of the city of Chicago. It is well worthy ofcareful study, constituting, as it does, a most convincing argu-ment in favor of pure water.
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