. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation. importance. Perhaps no community has takenhold of this subject with a more comprehensive grasp than theone in which we live. Cambridge may be said to be the verycentre of growth in municipal health and individual hygiene The effects of a sedentary life, and the close confinementnecessarily accompanying the intellectual efforts of the students,must have drawn the attention of the college authorities to thematter of health preservation at an early period i
. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation. importance. Perhaps no community has takenhold of this subject with a more comprehensive grasp than theone in which we live. Cambridge may be said to be the verycentre of growth in municipal health and individual hygiene The effects of a sedentary life, and the close confinementnecessarily accompanying the intellectual efforts of the students,must have drawn the attention of the college authorities to thematter of health preservation at an early period in its history,although we have no record of any practical effort in this direc-tion until the first quarter of the present century. It is inter-esting to observe that whatever efforts are made by the collegetowards the maintenance of health must necessarily be supple-mented by the city. The college can teach the elements ofhygiene and correct methods of living, and the individual mayapply these precepts to his own life, but so long as the plrysical 1 See chapter on Health in Cambridge, by II. P. Wulcott, M. D. — DR. FOLLEN. 165 man is ultimately the product of the air he breathes, the foodhe eats, and the water he drinks, his immediate environmentsmust play an important part in his health and development. In this respect, a man who undertakes to build himself upmentally or physically becomes for the time being simply anagent of distribution. That is, by bringing his mental facultiesinto increased activity he can send nutriment to his brain, or byusing his muscles vigorously he can send nutriment to differentparts of his body, in this way building up and elaborating mate-rial substances into the highest kind of organic faculty. But the nature of these material substances and the condi-tion in which they are brought to him are often beyond hisindividual control. Thus the condition of the soil, the sourceand nature of the food and drinking water, the presence ofstagnan
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