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Sickness And Civilization

The Wall Street Journal

January 24, 2026

ALMOST everyone knows the line "no man is an island."

- BY KYLE HARPER

BED REST 'The Sick Child' (1893) by J. Bond Francisco.

This story is from the January 24, 2026 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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