Healthy boyhood / by Arthur Trewby, M.A., with an introduction by Sir Dyce Duckworth ... and a foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts.

  • Trewby, Arthur.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Healthy boyhood / by Arthur Trewby, M.A., with an introduction by Sir Dyce Duckworth ... and a foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    words should help to make parents un derstand that, for the sake of their sons' well-beuior and the nation's strenoth and prosperity, boys should be plainly told all they will have to fight against when they come to be associated with other boys at school and elsewhere. All who have experience of schools— both public and private—know how pre- valent is the evil described by Mr. Trewby, and their testimony goes far to prove that it is by parents, in the first instance, that this evil can be most effectually dealt with. It is by parents, or those who take the place of parents, that such timely warning can be given as will prevent boys erring, from sheer icrnorance of the harm they may do