PART FIFTH. 



HEALTH, DISEASE, AND CURE. 

 CHAPTER I. 



HEALTH. 



What is Health? Beauty A Picture of Health Harmony of Life- 

 Activity A Condition of Happiness Exceptional Happiness in Dis- 

 easeHealth Natural Health of Plants and Animals Natural Life 

 and Natural Death The Attainment of Health a moral and religious 

 Duty. 



HEALTH is Saxon for whole, akin to holy and to heal. To heal 

 is to make whole, or to make holy. Health or wholeness, 

 completeness, perfection of the body and mind, corresponds to 

 holiness, wholeness, and purity of heart. It means complete- 

 ness and perfection of organisation, fulness of life, freedom of 

 action, purity from all stain or corruption, harmony of functions 

 "a sound mind in a sound body." 



Health is a condition of perfect development the wholeness 

 of the harmonious growth and adaptation of part to part, organ 

 to organ, where none are stunted and none in excess. In this 

 we have the perfection of symmetry and beauty, which are 

 merely the result of wholeness or health. For it can be shown 

 that the forms and proportions of man and of every animal 

 which are the most useful, are the most beautiful. When 

 every bone is of the best form and size, there is perfect propor- 

 tion ; when every muscle has its proper development, with just 

 enough of fat in the cellular tissue, we have the highest beauty 



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