WHAT IS DISEASE
“Tlicrc is n-i external tiling we ee.ii call disease. It is something \" itliin the living organism. I here* is hast tin* body of man. a complex organism, a part of Xature. grown and iashiomd through the ages lrom a variety ol organic and inorganic elcimuils. witli a-nc-esti ;d as well a sphyxieal and mental characters, developed, in r 1 sjiou:-'.- to the necessity of functioning. The healthy life of the body depends upon the ordered sequence of a series ol harmonious processes and functions. Secondly, there is the sum total of conditions which surround a man lrom infancy to old age, the fore’s ol nature, climate, cold and heat, summer and winter, his house, his workshop, the human society in which he moves. Ins social, economic, and domestic circumstances, his food and drink, his habits. the strains and stresses of I:is lile. tilt* parasites and poisons. I lie agents of infection. All this is his cmiruuliicut.”—S' George N"wv ■,: Fi 1 i'■ - terpreters of Xalure,.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 4
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167WHAT IS DISEASE Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 4
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