"HEALTH IS LIFE ITSELF."

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 4

"HEALTH IS LIFE ITSELF."

When we think about health most of us regard it as an adjunct, says Dr. Macpherson Lawrie, physician to Queen Mary's Hospital, London, wiitihg in the Lktener. We regard it as a possible asset to Hfe which carries with it certain ihdividu'al and nhtional benefits. No conception of bealtli cohld be nioto oht of keeping with reality. Health is not a mere adjunct. It is not an additionttl asset to life— it is lifo itself. And I deliberatoly reverse the position hild malco life an adjunct to health, bccause health, whether we admit it or not, powetfully directs behaviour; and shapes, with more prccision thatt we may wiah to acknowledge, the gourse of our existence and the ultimhto stfucturo of our fate. Wo have all soeli, possibly many titiies, the life of att individual tWisted and warped, shofn of stlGCess and happhiess, by tho Ioworing dffecta of ill-health. Wo iihvo seen tho expressioli of ability chOcked by a siolttiees which has nofc reaehed. ihe Btage of acdeptod disOrdofji We haVO Scen achievOnient frustfated ahd ihe fulfilhient of ambitiOn thwafted by ailaicnts not gencrally ConsiQered as mOrbid,. And tho reason Why, in niy opinion, health becdmeS the master of lifo rhther than tho sefVdnt is beeatlSe it cxoreises such a prOfotind and dramatic influence upon tho state of the mind.