"Uncleanliness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there are few constutions altogether free from a scorbutic taint, from being true, that unless among sailors and some others circumstanced like them, more particularly with respect to those who use a salt and putrid diet, and especially if they live in foul air and uncleanliness, I have reason to believe there are few disorders less frequent. This opinion I submitted to the judgment of the society several years ago, and I have had no reason since to alter it. I then said, contrary to what was generally believed, but seemingly on the best grounds, that the ...
— A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 • James Cook
... and arise usually from general debility, caused by insufficient or unwholesome diet, close apartments, a too sedentary life, long depression of spirits, coupled with, perhaps, uncleanliness and irregularities, all contributing to this result. These can all be relieved, and many fully restored, if taken in season, by a counter course ...
— Minnesota; Its Character and Climate • Ledyard Bill
... same ugly bodies and physical uncleanliness, the same toothless old age and disgusting ...
— Note-Book of Anton Chekhov • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
