A manual of practical hygiene : intended especially for medical officers of the Army and for civil medical officers of health / by Edmund A. Parkes.

  • Parkes, Edmund A. (Edmund Alexander), 1819-1876.
Date:
1873
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Credit: A manual of practical hygiene : intended especially for medical officers of the Army and for civil medical officers of health / by Edmund A. Parkes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all ways as disease, and that nothing is so remunerative as the outlay which augments health, and in doing so, augments the amount and value of the work done. It was the moral argument, as well as the financial one, which led Lord Herhert to devote his life to the task of doing justice to the soldier, of in- creasing the amount of his health, and moral and mental training, and, in so doing, of augmenting not only his happiness, but the value of his services to the country. And hy the side of Lord Herbert in this work was one whose name will ever be dear to the country, and whose life, ever since that memor- able winter at Scutari in 1855, has been given up entirely to the attempt to improve the condition of the soldier. This book has been writtea to assist in carrying out one of Lord Herbert's plans, and in accordance with his wish, and with that of Lord De Grey, his friend, coadjutor, and successor. It has, therefore, been sketched on a narrower basis than the longer treatise indicated above, which would have to deal with both sexes, all ages, and various trades and conditions. Although, however, as dealing with Military Hygiene, and drawing its chief examples from the soldier's life, it is a work on Army sanitation, it yet includes the general principles of hygiene, applicable to aU men—principles which, though here stated necessarily in the briefest and barest way, are, I am persuaded, fraught with benefit to all men, if they are properly interpreted and faithfully applied.