The Russian bath.

  • Mathias Roth
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Russian bath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    TO THE RIGHT HON. W. F. COWPER, M.P., PEESIDliNT OF TUK BOARD OP HEALTH. SiB,—You have, in tbe course of last year, repeatedly expressed some interest in the general introduction of the means which I am advocatiuR for the prevention of many diseases, and for the cure of them at llieir commencemeut. You have convinced yourself of the olTicacy of these means in the case of several of your friends, and when you honoured my Institution with your visits, you experi- enced and witnessed the practical working of some of these means; it is thoroforo with much gratification that I avail myself of your kind permission to address to you the Second Edition of this pamphlet,* vrith some Suggestions regarding Public Health, hoping you will find them worth examination. Although the Board of Health, being comparatively but a new creation, is not yet the centre of all that relates to health in the State in general—be it in the parish, the army, or navy—and although the Board does not yet occupy that high and important place which the public health requires, yet it has still the privilege of examining, advising, and reporting on all matters regarding health. To make the population as healthy as possible, to prevent disease as far as it can be done, and thus to increase the average of life, is the great aim of the Board of Health. Great efforts are im- doubtcdly made to study and to remove the causes of epidemic diseases which attack violently many persons at once, and kd] sud- denly ; but very little is done with regard to other most destructive • The Qi'st edition of which «a3 pul'hsheil three Tears ag.