Excerpt from Lectures on Military Sanitation and Management of the Sanitary Service
Hygiene is the science which deals with the preservation of the health. Its existence depends on past scientific discoveries. Sanitation is the method which is adopted to carry out the principles of hygiene. Sanitary methods may differ, but yet be effective, in the same way that many problems geometry may be solved by different methods. Sanitation, therefore, is the application of scientific discoveries to prevent disease. "Military sanitation" should be used instead of the words "military hygiene" as hygiene covers all principles to insure health and the application of these principles in the military service is the method of dealing with men living under conditions somewhat foreign to those that civilziation has caused to exist.
A medical officer has many duties to perform. There is hardly anything pertaining to a soldier that he is not in some way required to make recommendations or act on his own initiative, but his principal duty in time of war is to initiate the proper sanitary measures, and without your intelligent help as officers he will not be entirely successful. The greatest achievements toward military efficiency in our army, so far, have been accomplished by the medical corps by scientific discoveries and their application, and the officer who is now in command of men, and who does not give this subject the proper attention must necessarily be a failure.
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