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The Evolution of Modern Medicine

CHAPTER VI -- THE RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
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In season and out of season we had preached salvation from it in volumes which fill state reports, public health journals and the medical periodicals.

Though much has been done, typhoid fever remains a question of grave national concern.

You lost in this state( 7a) in 1911 from typhoid fever 154 lives, every one sacrificed needlessly, every one a victim of neglect and incapacity.
Between 1200 and 1500 persons had a slow, lingering illness.

A nation of contradictions and paradoxes--a clean people, by whom personal hygiene is carefully cultivated, but it has displayed in matters of public sanitation a carelessness simply criminal: a sensible people, among whom education is more widely diffused than in any other country, supinely acquiesces in conditions often shameful beyond expression.

The solution of the problem is not very difficult.


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