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And our immunity to infectious disease, 

 whether we brought it into the world with us, 

 or achieve it under the ministrations of the 

 physicians, will most closely confirm the 

 promise of science. 



There are many of the uncanny and disa- 

 greeable things of life from which it were 

 better that most of us turned away our eyes. 

 But the avoidance of some of those forms of 

 illness, whose causes have been considered in 

 this little book, is so closely dependent upon a 

 general knowledge of their nature that the 

 offence of unpleasant revelations may, it is 

 hoped, be forgiven by the reader in view of the 

 ultimate and universal good which these lines 

 have been penned to foster. 



