Excerpt from Air, Food and Exercises: An Essay on the Predisposing Causes of Disease Great mass of disease is built. It appears to me to be of the very utmost consequence as regards the causation, the treatment, and the prevention of disease. And my colleagues having as a body ignored the question (although a few of them seem to have been greatly and effectively interested in it) I have felt myself compelled, in view of the shortness of life and of the probability that I cannot in the nature of things expect to have many more opportunities of addressing either my colleagues or the public, to appeal at once to as wide an audience as I can. This book is, then, written frankly for the public, in the hope that its perusal may simplify and clarify their ideas upon the subject of disease, and that, by having their attention directed to its chief cause, as I conceive it, they may be enabled to considerably increase the length of efficient and healthy life, as also to obtain some amount of relief from the calamities which, in spite of all the advances of medicine and surgery, they still are called upon to endure. 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.