How to Keep Well and Live Long (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Modern science has made wonderful progress in the work of dealing with epidemic diseases, especially in preventing them, and the great object now is to accomplish similar results in dealing with Individual diseases.

In former times, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, etc., were the terrors of civilization. These epidemics swept over the world every two or three years, slaying their victims by tens of thousands. The death rate often was so great and it worked so rapidly that the dead had to be buried in trenches as on great battle fields. Cities were almost depopulated. All efforts of physicians to find a cure proved futile, and it seemed that the world would always be helpless against these attacks. This belief was especially strong in the minds of many who held to the superstition that these epidemics as well as all other diseases were sent by Provi dence, and consequently all efforts of man to cure or prevent them would always be unavail ing.

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