Project Gutenberg 2005-03-08 Public domain in the USA. 179 Councilman, W. T. (William Thomas) 1854 1933 Councilman, William Thomas Councilman, Wm. T. (William Thomas) Disease and Its Causes Reading ease score: 46.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. E-text prepared by Robert Shimmin, Carol David, Joshua Hutchinson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Disease and Its Causes" by W. T. Councilman is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work presents an in-depth exploration of disease as a complex interaction of living organisms with their environment, discussing various factors contributing to health and disease. It is particularly focused on infectious diseases and their underlying mechanisms, offering insights into how various bodies respond to these conditions. The opening of the book establishes the foundation for understanding disease by defining it as a deviation from a harmonious relationship between living organisms and their environment. Councilman discusses the fundamental properties of living matter, emphasizing that cells are the basic units of life and that they adapt to their surroundings. The text begins with the definition of disease, the characteristics of living cells, and the intricate relations between living organisms and their external context. It also touches on the significance of environmental factors in the development of diseases, and sets the stage for a more detailed examination of specific conditions and their implications in subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation RB Text Browsing: Health & Medicine Browsing: Science - General 391527 391370 2024-10-07T04:51:36.855097 2023-09-07T06:42:25.349229 text/html text/html 391705 2020-12-14T06:53:47 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 879421 2020-12-14T06:53:47 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 957805 2024-10-07T04:51:47.955031 application/epub+zip 962479 2024-10-07T04:51:41.613100 application/epub+zip 198261 2024-10-07T04:51:39.215103 application/epub+zip 1605791 2024-10-07T04:51:51.674974 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1585921 2024-10-07T04:51:46.026041 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 342412 2022-09-07T20:55:57.443193 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 362808 362696 2024-10-07T04:51:36.048107 2023-09-07T06:42:24.707234 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 362472 2020-12-14T06:53:47 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 124090 2020-12-14T06:53:47 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 362546 2020-12-14T06:53:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 124046 2020-12-14T06:53:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21332 2024-10-07T04:51:51.828971 application/rdf+xml 15256 2024-10-07T04:51:39.771118 image/jpeg 4033 2024-10-07T04:51:39.492039 image/jpeg 954071 2024-10-07T04:51:36.938054 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia