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geia, daughter of JEsculapius, true to the teachings of her 

 father ; regular profession only hope of humanity ; flee to the 

 mountains their rocks will not cover thee ; tears of the last 

 sick man dried 481 



CHAPTER II. 



HTGEIA. 



^Esculapius, the father of Hygeia; interpretations of classical 

 writers ; is a personification of the healing powers of nature ; 

 Hygeia, mild virgin, goddess of health and sound mind; 

 sphere, preservation of health and prevention of disease; 

 fields of labor presided over by her; art of prolonging life; 

 laws of health; philosophy of living; great prophylactic; 

 must not rob her father ; Mayo on Hygiene ; not original, 

 new, or just in stricture; his dig at the profession; no rene- 

 gade; faint praise; a word on Prof. Mayo's work, the "Phi- 

 losophy of Living," and Mayo ; table of contents of his book ; 

 Hufeland on the macrobiotic life; medical art, hygiene; mixed 

 definitions; troublesome distinctions ; art of prolonging life; 

 art of medicines, strictures on ; use of medicine and physi- 

 cians ; Hufeland's table of contents ; state of science ; art of 

 prolonging ; extent of literature of medicine in this depart- 

 ment; professional books, books not professional -both sig- 

 nificant; man and his surroundings; preventive elements sim- 

 ple ; all the surroundings of man involved ; the bodies we 

 have; what we eat; gastronomy; the stomach; universal con- 

 sanguinity; only indispensable organ to all animals; all em- 

 bracing affinities; its ills the full circle of torments; diseased, 

 it is Pandora's box ; catalogue of fissures in base of pyramid ; 

 Tantalus ; waters we drink ; pure water great hygienic water ; 

 mineral waters; nonsense of promiscuous spring going; or- 

 gans addressed by mineral waters; what can they do? great 

 impression made first on digestive machinery ; real use great 

 new impression; indiscriminate application to diseases absurd; 

 great mineral water, rationally medicated pure water; Dr. 

 Struve; factitious mineral waters; preferable to natural; 

 fabulous powers of natural ; mysterious and inexplicable 

 qualities suspicious; special pleading of particular advocates; 

 how in bronchial diseases ; mucous surfaces, etc. ; in other 

 diseases ; great water, pure water, assisted by all surround- 

 ings; air we breathe; pure air greatest prophylactic ; sleep; 

 heavenly force to cure and prevent ; mind and body both 

 saved by sleep; what we wear; importance of philosophy of 

 clothes; despotisms and follies of husk-man's instincts; 

 clothes as preventives ; ignorance, if true philosophy of 

 clothes; vice, crime of fashionable dressing; slavery to con- 

 ventionalisms in dress ; sin ; when will we wake up ; what we 

 do; hygiene of work; virtues of work; medicine of work; 

 of all exercise, saving elements; varieties; active; passive; 

 all have special ends; discriminate use of; on the side of the 

 soul, great world of prophylactic powers; closes the circle 



