Excerpt from Art Versus Nature in Disease: A Refutation of NaturalismBut diseases exist, life is embittered and shortened by their agency, and man feeling conscious that they are unnatural and contrary to the law of God, fol lowing, and guided by, the instinctive dread of disease and death planted in his mind for a wise purpose, has in every age hastened to study the laws which regulate his existence, and to discover the art which shall enable him to bae this foe to his well being, and to promote health, and prolong life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.