Excerpt from Jewish Law and Sanitary Science
Of all branches of medicine that of hygiene or sanitary science is acknowledged to be the most important. The future of medicine from the utilitarian standpoint is bound up with the welfare of this single branch. It is in this direction the permanent advances of the healing art are to be sought, and we look to it to speed the time when medicine will cease its existence as a curative art and enter upon its new career as the art of preventing disease. It is only within recent years that the necessity has arisen to assign to hygiene a separate place among the sciences. The odds and ends of sanitary science were previously appropriated by medicine in general, not yet having attained sufficient eminence to warrant special recognition. Its objects are in one sense antagonistic to medicine, because it aims at creating a state of affairs which will be able to dispense with that craft. It sets itself the task of warding off disease and resisting its attacks. It will have reached its acme of perfection when it enunciates the natural laws of hygiene which will render impregnable to disease those that follow their behests.
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