Excerpt from Health: And How to Promote It
Hygiene, public and private, has become, of late years, one of the most important elements of modern civilization. It is a subject in which all mankind has an interest, even if it be, as it too often is, an unconscious interest. The life of every man, woman, and child, ought to be guided and governed by its laws. This being so, the subject ought to be presented and agitated in many forms, so that its importance shall be everywhere appreciated. Physicians and their patients are equally interested in it, for the success of physic will be vastly greater wherever hygiene is understood.
In the following pages the author proposes to direct attention principally, almost entirely, to personal matters under individual control; that is, to what each individual may do for himself, or what paterfamilias, or his wife (incedit regina), may do for the household.
Public hygiene, or what should be done by communities, States, or cities, the author leaves to such eminent scientists as Mr. Chadwick, Dr. Bowditch, Dr. Bell, of The Sanitarian, and others, and to such associations as the American Medical, Public Health, Medico-Legal, of New York, etc., whose united efforts will bring within a few years incalculable good to the whole civilized world.
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