Public Health in the United States: An Outline with Statistical Data

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Harper & Brothers, 1923 - Public health - 555 pages
 

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Page 210 - ... at in history, he will be thought to have shared as little as any in the defects of the period, and most notably exhibited the virtues of the race.
Page 240 - Direction of the Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical Association.
Page 369 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
Page 274 - On my honor I will do my best "To do my duty to God and my country "and to obey the Scout Law; 'To help other people at all times; 'To keep myself physically strong, "mentally awake, and morally straight.
Page 200 - Man is never sick, for Mind is not sick and matter 393:30 cannot be. A false belief is both the tempter and the tempted, the sin and the sinner, the disease and its cause.
Page 2 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Page 31 - Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illness, the old escape those "cold gradations of decay" that make the last stage of all so distressing.
Page 434 - ... to saddle every public and semipublic enterprise on the government, a tendency arising from a profound misconception of government and its legitimate function, and often associated with a disinclination on the part of those displaying it to perform their own individual duty. But I am unqualifiedly in favor of a national department of health with a cabinet officer at its head, which shall by its very creation give a great object lesson to our people and shall correlate and vastly expand all the...

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