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International Journal of Epidemiology 2004 33(4):635-640; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh206
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Preservation of health
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Extracted from W Thompson. Practical Directions for the Speedy and Economical Establishment of Communities, on the Principles of Mutual Co-operation, United Possessions and Equality of Exertions and of the Means of Enjoyments. London: Strain and Wilson, 1830.
Health comprehends not merely the negative blessings of freedom from disease and pain of all sorts, not merely the physical pleasure, chiefly felt in infancy and youth, of the free and equal circulation of all the fluids, but also the preservation of the frame through the longest period of life, in such a state of equal and gentle excitement as to be capable of all those exertions and enjoyments, physical, mental, or social, not accompanied with nor followed by preponderant evil, which the wisest arrangement of circumstances can present to every individual.
The most prominent of the causes, perhaps, that derange health, that engender and perpetuate diseases or induce permanent predispositions to
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