Topic

Philosophy

The old schools of how to live, read for use rather than for credit: Stoics, Epicureans, Montaigne, Ecclesiastes, and whoever else said something plainly enough to still be true.

Reading Salisbury, Part 6: The Soil and the Seed

Sixth in a series working slowly through “The Relation of Alimentation and Disease” by James H. Salisbury, M.D. (1888). Chapters VI–X: consumption, the germ found six years before he published, and the part of his theory that survived it. The book is free; the link is at the bottom.

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