A manual of hygiene and sanitation / By Seneca Egbert.

  • Egbert, Seneca, 1863-1939
Date:
[1907], [©1907]
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Credit: A manual of hygiene and sanitation / By Seneca Egbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    must be the study of climate and meteorology; of clothing and shelter; of the care of the sick, not only for their own sake, but that they may not endanger the well; the dangers of the abuse of stimulants, narcotics, etc.; tlie_ desirability of chaste and teraperate_2iying, exercise, rest, etc. -—p———-^ Parkes says that, taking the word ' hygiene' in its largest sense, it signifies rules for the perfect culture of mind and body. It is impossible to dissociate the two. The body is affected by every mental or moral action; the mind is profoundly influenced by bodily conditions. [So is the moral conduct of individuals or communities.] For a perfect system of hygiene we must train the body, the intellect, and the moral faculties in a perfect and bal- anced order. Again, he says: Looking only to the part of hygiene which concerns the physician, a perfect system of rules of health would be best arranged in an orderly series of this kind. The rules would commence with the regulation of the mother's health while bearing her child, so that the growth of the new being would be as perfect as possible. Then, after birth, the rules (dif- ferent for each sex at certain times) would embrace three epochs: of growth (including infancy and youth); of maturity, when for many years the body remains appar- ently stationary ; of decay, when, without actual disease, though doubtless in consequence of some chemical changes, molc^cular feobl(Miess commences in some part or other, forcruTiniiig general decay and death. In these several epochs of his life the human being would have to be con- sidered : Fird^ in relation to the natural conditions which surround him, and which are essential for lif(\ such as the air he breathes, the water he drinks, etc. ; in fact, in rela- tion to nature at large. Second, in his social and corporate