# Preventable Diseases

Author: Hutchinson, Woods, 1862-1930

Genre: Category: Health & Medicine

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21965

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Preventable+Diseases+Hutchinson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The human body as a mechanism is far from perfect. It can be beaten or surpassed at almost every point by some product of the machine-shop or some animal. It does almost nothing perfectly or with absolute precision. As Huxley most unexpectedly remarked a score of years ago, "If a manufacturer of optical instruments were to hand us for laboratory use an instrument so full of defects and imperfections as the human eye, we should promptly decline to accept it and return it to him. But," as he went on to say, "while the eye is inaccurate as a microscope, imperfect as a telescope, crude as a photographic camera, it is all of these in one." In other words, like the body, while it does nothing a...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/preventable-diseases-21965/chapters/6/index.md)