PERSONAL APPEARANCES 



IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



IF a person wholly unacquainted with the structure of the 

 body or with any of its functions could be confronted with 

 a. number of individuals, some of whom are what we call 

 healthy and others what we call unhealthy, he would 

 have very little difficulty in discriminating the one group 

 from the other. The unhealthy ones might none of 

 them be suffering from any grave disease, they might 

 even be pursuing their ordinary avocations, and yet 

 without putting a single question to them this unskilled, 

 and possibly not very discerning^ individual would have 

 but little hesitation in making the broad distinction. He 

 could not tell why he arrived at that conclusion, he 

 might only say that these did not " look so well " as those ; 

 yet he would have gone through the process of picturing 

 to himself what a healthy man should be, and would 

 contrast his ideal with the forms before him. It is very 

 likely indeed that here and there lie might make a 

 mistake, for being an undiscerning man he might be 

 deceived by the appearance of health which some dis- 



