The Causes and Prevention of Phthisis (Classic Reprint)

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The subject of the Milroy Lectures for the year 1890 was selected, notwithstanding its apparent triteness, and the numberless treatises that have been written upon it, partly for its own intrinsic importance, but mainly because it is one to which Dr. Milroy himself gave much prominence.
He mentions it again and again in his suggestions; 1st, in regard to the 'cachexias' that may constitute a pre-tuberculous stage of the malady ; 2ndly, directly, under the head of tuberculosis ; 3rdly, in the suggestion that it is based upon, and connected or associated with an unhealthy condition of the constitution, or habit of the system. This unhealthy condition, or dyscrasia of the body, is often, he says , 'doubtless, in respect of some of these maladies, congenital and hereditary; but observation seems distinctly to show that it may also be acquired and become developed de novo, independently of parental transmission or descent; and that in such cases the genesis or origination of the malady will probably be found to be largely due to the neglect of some of those natural laws of healthy existence, with the consideration of which the Science of Public Hygiene professes to deal.'
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