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recognised moral duty, or the evident interest of the governing 

 classes to give every human creature the conditions of health, 

 we shall be freed from nine-tenths of our diseases. 



I have spoken, in the chapter on Hereditary Transmission, 

 of the prevention of hereditary diseases ; and in future chapters 

 I shall have to consider those moral, social, and political 

 changes which will be necessary for the removal of some of 

 the causes of disease, and the elevation of the human race to 

 that condition which will ensure the greatest amount of health 

 and general well-being. 



CHAPTER VI. 



MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND PRACTICE. 



Priests Anciently Physicians Hippocrates Celsus Galen Paracelsus 

 Conflicting Theories of Disease and Medicine Medical Delusions 

 Herbalists Homoeopathy Hydropathy All Systems Successful 

 Nature Cures The Gift of Healing Women as Physicians 

 Eclecticism. 



THE priests of ancient Egypt were also the physicians, having 

 the care of the health of soul and body ; and it might be well 

 if in our own day there were some of this unity if our doctors 

 of medicine paid more attention to the soul, and our doctors 

 of divinity knew more of what is required for the health of the 

 body. Priests seem to have been also physicians in the first 

 ages of the Jewish nation, as they directed measures of clean- 

 liness and the prevention of contagion ; and great good might 

 now be done if all clergymen were to teach from their pulpits 

 the benefits of temperance, chastity, and the daily bath. If, 

 indeed, religious teachers of every denomination were to sue- 



