Excerpt from The Cottage Physician for Individual and Family Use: Prevention, Symptoms and Treatment

The study of medicine, not as an accomplishment, but as a subject Of the first importance to the individual, should be taken up by every one. The care Of our bodies is our first duty to ourselves. Self-preservation is the first law of Nature. In Obedience to that law all should learn from undoubted authorities how to preserve a healthful condition Of body, to ward Off disease, to care for and to feed the sick, as well as to render aid to the injured in emergencies. The need of this study is all the more emphasized by the statement upon the highest medical author ity that nearly all of our ailments are produced and propagated by either our own ignorance or our own carelessness.

At no period Of the world's history have the people been so well quali fied to take up the study Of health as they are now. Physiology and other science subjects, taken up of late years in the schools of the country, have given a solid foundation upon which a sound knowledge of the human body and its needs may rest. This fact and the wonderful advances in medical science require that the subject be approached in a very different way from that which satisfied our immediate ancestors. Ten years have made a wonderful change in our knowledge of health and disease. Treatises that were excellent in their day now fail to meet the new conditions in so many respects that new and revised editions no longer satisfy.

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