British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 36 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 36 And what is this Hygiene that we should exalt it, or that we should fear it? It is indeed Civilization´s better part. Much there is in it of that mystery that attaches to our race; the counters that it plays with are not merely human lives; crowns and sceptres are under the influence of its sway; the balance of European power, the British constitution itself, may bend to its strong appeal: for with a step like that of the ghostly statue in the play, amid the clang of international and jars of political discord, Civilization irresistibly advances - strong by its alliances, attractive in its sympathies, pulsating under the pressure of ancient and domestic thrall, yet sworn in fealty to no soil, it spreads and pierces by a law of life; and come what will, it must go on. There is no longer any let to this must; and as it establishes itself it will call for barriers against disease. The interpretation of individual independence - incompatibility of state institutions - will all ultimately prove plastic, or rend under the application of its force. A perception of the laws of life will end in a cry for the preservation of human lives as loud mayhap as ever was the cry for liberty. Hygiene must finally be accepted as the imperative duty and privilege of the State, as its use comes to be cherished more and more by each individual man. The march of these facts might have been retarded for some years had not society possessed in its soldiers a special field for observation whence to draw inferences that are incontrovertible. The results of army statistics pass now deservedly among the discoveries of science. What mind, indeed, was fully prepared for such results? There are few, we would fain trust, that are not touched with compunction for the devastations of the past. Under support of a general consent to the firm basis on which the science rests, Hygiene now enters unchallenged into the field of legislation, to remain no intruder there. The flutter at the novelty of State medicine, while it serves to give assurance of security against individual oppression, is no prelude of resistance to our national progress and to the well-being of the multitude. The book we have before us is a wonderful monument of literary industry; so little has been omitted or overlooked in its construction that we succeed ill in finding anything either to add or to correct. In point of science it carries the department of "Military Hygiene" thoroughly up to the improvements of the present day, and will doubtless continue for some time to be the standard of reference and court of appeal on this subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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