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Page 212 - He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization; and when that stage of man is done with, and only remembered to be marvelled 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 4 - Public health is the science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts...
Page 242 - 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 276 - 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 202 - 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 472 - The present laws of the state are drastic and sufficient to control any abuse. We know that there is no cruelty to animals in the laboratories of the universities. They are in charge of men and women of the highest character who are unselfishly working .to better the lot of their fellowmen and to advance the interests of their community and of the state.
Page 4 - The science and the art of preventing disease prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery which will insure to every individual a standard of living adequate...
Page 6 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Page 33 - 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.