Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Reminiscences and Essays
From Thucydides to Boccaccio, from Boccaccio to Defoe, from Defoe to Manzoni, we are constantly taught the same lesson, that the horrors and calami ties of disease are aggravated a thousandfold by popular ignorance, and that national education is really the first and most indispensable condition of national health.
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