Volume 2

Health lectures for the people.

Date:: 1883-1892

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health lectures for the people. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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there is still liope, and that, like a brave commander, nature still in most instances holds out. It is, indeed, impossible to over- estimate the importance of the fact, that though when handi- capped with disease these bodies of ours may fail to reach the post which marks the average span of human life, yet they seldom fail to make a gallant struggle, and even when heavily weighted with disease they comparatively rarely break down and utterly collapse quite at the commencement of the course.