CIVILISATION AND HEALTH.
The publication of "Civilisation and Health" (by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of Boston) causes an American reviewer to pen the following, in ■ which may be found more than a grain of, truth : "A few chapters of Dr. Woods Hutchinson will serve to counteract a good deal of the- nonsense written and spoken by the medical specialist. Dr. Hutchinson tells us, for example, that the human race is in no danger of extermination from any of the diseases dressed up bogey-fashion for the purpose of terrifying us. Nor shall we all be insane by 1966, at least not more so than we are nowl "Disease is not increasing, and those diseases that exist are being cured more easily. The remedy for the evils of civilisation, says Dr. Hutchinson, is more civilisation, and here, perhaps, he falls into the error of the aphorism, as he does often. For we should like to know what he means by civilisation. The use of drugs, he believes, will nearly cease. They will be needed sometimes for emergencies, but the actual cure will be food and fresh air. "Dr. Hutchinson devotes three chapters to the health of women, which he thinks will not be undermined by the things . that they are now doing. He devotes a chapter to the fly, a,nd another to the cow." . '
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 63, 11 September 1915, Page 14
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