192 '"* LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 



LETTER VII. 



224, Slackfriars Road, 



15th Sept. 1836. 

 MY DEAR JOHN, 



IN this Letter, I shall endeavour to give you a 

 practical instance of the manner in which the pre- 

 sent habits of society act in the production of dis- 

 ease their modus operandi. 



There is a condition of the body in which no 

 actual disease at least, no denominated disease 

 can be said to exist ; and yet in which the whole of 

 the living actions are deteriorated in which no 

 one individual organ can be pointed out as the seat 

 of disorder, but in which all the organs perform 

 their offices in an irregular and unhealthy manner, 

 and that without any evident assignable cause. No 

 part of the machine goes right. In the morning, 

 instead of waking refreshed with new vigour, and 

 ready at once to enter with alacrity on the business 

 of the day, the patient is oppressed with a painful 

 drowsiness, which he finds it almost impossible to 



