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A DOCTOR ON MAN’S ILLS. (By Telegraph—Presss Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) „ , LONDON, June 13. Or Leonard Williams, a Harley Street specialist, made refreshingly original comments upon illness when addressing the Aldwych Club on physiological efficiency. He said: “If we get illness we should not be pitied as victims but condemned as fools." 'Martyr to rheumatism” was just as fantastic a pharse, he continued, as “Martyr to delirium tremens” would be. “We must learn to divert ourselves of the idea that there is something heaven-sent and inevitable about illness. In a greater or less degree, chiefly greater, all disease was preventable. It one estimated the average life of the lower animal m relation to the time taken to reach maturity, the normal lifespan of man ought to be 120 to 150 years. When man attained maturity it was his duty to maintain that physical state as long as possible instead of generally set out to impair it as fast as possible. When he has thus urgently summoned every imaginable “m P X." reSldeWithinhim hc -fc-
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Southland Times, Issue 18968, 15 June 1923, Page 6
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177LONGEVITY Southland Times, Issue 18968, 15 June 1923, Page 6
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