Causes of Disease
61
Secret Vice
286. This vice is laying waste the constitution of very many, and
preparing them for diseases of almost every description.—
A Solemn
Appeal, 53
.
287. Some of nature’s fine machinery gives way, leaving a heav-
ier task for the remainder to perform, which disorders nature’s fine
arrangement, and there is often a sudden breaking down of the consti-
tution; and death is the result.—
A Solemn Appeal, 64
.
Exciting Causes
Unhygienic Surroundings
288. Filth is a breeder of disease.—
The Review and Herald, Febru-
ary 4, 1896
.
289. A neglect of cleanliness will induce disease.... Stubborn
fevers and violent diseases have prevailed in neighborhoods and towns
that had formerly been considered healthy, and some have died, while
others have been left with broken constitutions to be crippled with
disease for life. In many instances their own yards contained the agent
of destruction, which sent forth deadly poisons into the atmosphere, to
be inhaled by the family and the neighborhood.—
How to Live, 61
.
290. Many suffer decayed vegetable matter to remain about their
premises. They are not awake to the influence of these things. There
is constantly arising from these decaying substances effluvium that is
poisoning the air. By inhaling the impure air, the blood is poisoned,
the lungs become affected, and the whole system is diseased. Disease
of almost every description will be caused by inhaling the atmosphere
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affected by these decaying substances.—
Ibid
.
291. If a house be built where water settles around it, remaining for
a time and then drying away, a poisonous miasma arises, and fever and
ague, sore throat, lung diseases, and fevers will be the result.—
How to
Live, 64
.
Flesh Diet
292. The mortality caused by eating meat is not discerned.... Ani-
mals are diseased, and by partaking of their flesh we plant the seeds