NDLI: PUBLIC BATHS A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE.Read in the Section of State Medicine at the Forty-third Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Detroit, Mich., June, 1892.

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Author	SHEPARD, CHARLES H.
Copyright Year	1892
Abstract	A nation is powerful in proportion to the health of its people, and individuals are successful in life largely in proportion to their good health. Man begins existence with a certain stock of vitality, and his success or failure depends upon a careful or prodigal use of that capital, so that good health, which should be his birthright, is of more importance than special fitness for life work. The losses to the community from disease are beyond estimate, yet these are so common as to blunt our realization of the conditions that surround us. What more desirable therefore, than to seek some measure of relief? It is well to be able to cure disease, but a thousand fold better to prevent it. Herein lies the physician's most noble field of work, that of Preventive Medicine. Of all forms of prevention or cure, none appeals so directly to common sense as
Ending Page	432
Starting Page	429
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
ISSN	00029955
DOI	10.1001/jama.1892.02420150013001d
Issue Number	15
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Association
Volume Number	XIX
Language	English
Publisher	American Medical Association
Publisher Date	1892-10-08
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine

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PUBLIC BATHS A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE.Read in the Section of State Medicine at the Forty-third Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Detroit, Mich., June, 1892.