Excerpt from Health and Disease, Their Determining Factors
The dissemination of information concerning matters of health is not only generally accepted as desirable, but such education of the public is the basis of much of the present-day work for better health. This attitude is in marked contrast to that which has existed up to the immediate present. In the Middle Ages, for example, a medical treatise was issued in the vulgar tongue, rather than in Latin, the customary language of learning, and was carefully guarded lest it fall into the hands of the laity, in order that these pearls should not be cast before swine. But at the present time the medical profession is beginning to appreciate the value of intelligent cooperation on the part of the laity and to respond to the insistent demands of their nonprofessional brethren for instruction in the preservation of health and the avoidance of disease. Through the gradual education of the public to the possibilities of health improvement, within the limits of a generation the death rate has decreased from thirty-one in a thousand of population to slightly over thirteen per thousand.
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