Excerpt from The Principles of Health Control
A chief difference between the present volume and the usual textbooks upon hygiene lies in the emphasis that is placed upon corrective work. Advantage is taken of the fact that perfect health is rarely attained, to place before the student the problem of improving his physical condition and of testing in a simple manner the principles which he is studying.
Health control, from the author's viewpoint, presents a negative and a positive phase - negative in so far as the causes of disease and bodily weakness are to be avoided, positive to the extent that weak parts are to be built up, body processes improved, and the natural defenses strengthened. Although these phases are of about equal importance, the second supplies an impelling motive for the student and fills an ever-increasing need in the life of today.
Since all phases of modern life tend to impair the physical organism, there should be a wide dissemination of the knowledge of how weaknesses are to be relieved and the body restored to its normal condition. This does not mean that less attention should be given to prevention, but that more should be given to counteractive and recuperative agencies.
In requiring corrective work of students, however, care must be exercised. The conditions which we attempt to improve must be such as yield to well-defined hygienic agencies, and the remedies suggested must do no harm. Those under the physician's care must be guided by his advice or excused entirely.
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