CHAPTER XV 



THE HUNTER: INCIDENTAL 

 AILMENTS 



Under this title, the author proposes to give 

 a ristimi of several of the principal ailments 

 incidental to the hunter. Some of these 

 are of a specific nature, ix, organismal in 

 their causation, whereas others are more 

 correctly spoken of as functto?ial^ ix, due 

 to perversion or disturbance of the working 

 power of certain organs, such as the stomach, 

 liver, kidneys, and so forth. Age, sex, con- 

 dition, and a multiplicity of extrinsic forces, 

 necessarily exercise a bearing upon the 

 production of disease, and the last named 

 has a further-reaching influence on the 

 course and termination of a malady. The 

 following embraces the ailments we purpose 

 discussing : 



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