Hygiene / by J. Lane Notter and R.H. Firth.

  • James Lane-Notter
Date:
1895
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Credit: Hygiene / by J. Lane Notter and R.H. Firth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    One of the most remarkable features in the educational move- ment of the present day has been the increased effort to diffuse a knowledge of the relations which exist between our health and the air we breathe, the water and food we consume, the soil^ we tread and the buildings we occupy. Known under the various current names of Sanitary Science, Public' Health or Hygiene, this subject involves an acquaintance with such diverse sciences as physics, chemistry, geology, engineering, architecture, meteoro- logy, epidemiology, bacteriology and statistics. To these, strictly speaking, may be added the study of the law or those legal enactments which concern the sanitary well-being of communities. When, therefore, the publishers asked us to prepare a small work on this many-sided subject, to form one of their Science Manuals, such as would present its facts and principles fully, briefly, and yet in simple language suitable for both non-profes- sional and professional readers, we were early confronted with the difficulty of deciding what to include and what to omit. We have endeavoured to consider the general laws of health, the causes of disease and the means of combating them, in the simplest language, and, by divesting them, where possible, of scientific technicalities, to make clear, even to non-scientific readers, those great natural laws and processes upon which our healthy life so much depends. While doing so, we have felt bound to be not unmindful of the wants of others, desirous or entering more fully into the study of what should be a great and practical subject in our national education. The work is not to be regarded as a substitute for the regular and more advanced books which discuss the subject of hygiene in its many bearings,
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