Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin: Arranged With a View to Their Constitutional Causes, and Local Characters; Including the Substance of the Essay to Which the Royal College of Surgeons Awarded the Jacksonian Prize, and All Such Valuable Facts as Have Been Recorded by Continental Authors O On referring to the works of French authors we are struck with the influences which diet, and regimen, and habits of life have in regulating the degrees of violence of cutaneous 'disease. As regards the middle and higher classes of the two countries, it would appear that the French have the advantage over the English: most certainly they are not so frequently the victims of those troublesome, annoying, and unsightly affections as our selves. Nor is this difference more difficult of expla nation than that which is manifested between such diseases of the poor of the two countries. If the aggra vated sufferings of the poor of the continent depend on starvation or the alternative of using disgusting and unhealthy food, the more fortunate of their countrymen enjoy, perhaps, all that is necessary to health without attaining that degree of repletion which so often gives occasion to disease among their equals in this country. It must be highly. Satisfactory to the philos0phic ob server to perceive that'the habits of all but the very lower classes in England have been, for many years, approximating to those of our continental brethren. Those indubitable evidences of good fellowship, blotched and bloated countenances and Bardolph noses, 'are becoming extinct among the English almost as fast as the seams and pits of another pest of the human race - that of the small-pox. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.