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Excerpt from The Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 7
These causes, alas are manifold. They accompany man from the cradle to the tomb; they surround him at his birth, escort him all his life, being for him a perpetual threatening. But the most common, undoubtedly, are those which arise from some disorders of the digestive system.
It is by the digestive tube that life enters our body, and by the digestive tube also that enters death.
The intestines and the stomach can be considered as true laboratories where the most deadly poisons are incessantly produced. Nature, it is true, has provided us with powerful means of defence, but, some day, the foes will swarm and overcome the barriers opposed to them by physiological laws; disease then is constituted with all its sufferings and dangers.
These disorders, in the greatest majority of cases, are owing to ignorance or contempt of the laws of hygiene. It is, therefore, our duty to teach these laws and point out their importance.
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