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The general action of cold lies no doubt in the production of a sluggish- ness of the chemico-vital changes, which, if carried ' It is stated (Aitken's ' Medicine'), but not on statistical evidence, that the longevity of the Icelanders is greatly reduced by catarrh.
86 EX VIR'IBUS VIVIMUS.
far, may destroy, but if moderated must extend, length of life (at the expense of intensity). The coldness of water, together with its diminished power of oxygenation, as compared with the atmosphere, is one ...of the direct causes of diminished expenditure in aquatic animals, rendering their life necessarily less intense than that of terrestrial forms, and so longer.
In keeping animals in menageries, in rearing pets and domesticated animals, man performs an experi- ment by diminishing personal expenditure. He fre- quently does the same in his own case, leading a careless, labourless existence ; but there is in this as in other experiments (which are rarely so good in physiological enquiry in their results as natural comparisons) a disturbing cause, for Luxury, 'the fertile parent of a whole family of diseases,' as Galen termed her, steps in and works against the diminished expenditure.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The general action of cold lies no doubt in the production of a sluggish- ness of the chemico-vital changes, which, if carried ' It is stated (Aitken's ' Medicine'), but not on statistical evidence, that the longevity of the Icelanders is greatly reduced by catarrh.
86 EX VIR'IBUS VIVIMUS.
far, may destroy, but if moderated must extend, length of life (at the expense of intensity). The coldness of water, together with its diminished power of oxygenation, as compared with the atmosphere, is one ...of the direct causes of diminished expenditure in aquatic animals, rendering their life necessarily less intense than that of terrestrial forms, and so longer.
In keeping animals in menageries, in rearing pets and domesticated animals, man performs an experi- ment by diminishing personal expenditure. He fre- quently does the same in his own case, leading a careless, labourless existence ; but there is in this as in other experiments (which are rarely so good in physiological enquiry in their results as natural comparisons) a disturbing cause, for Luxury, 'the fertile parent of a whole family of diseases,' as Galen termed her, steps in and works against the diminished expenditure.
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