Preventive medicine in relation to the public health ... Being lectures and addresses delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital and elsewhere. Revised by the author / by Alfred Carpenter.

Date:
1877
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Credit: Preventive medicine in relation to the public health ... Being lectures and addresses delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital and elsewhere. Revised by the author / by Alfred Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Conclusion. a great measure independent of the trammels of imperfect quarantine. That, as zymotic disease has its main impetus in the disregard of duty, those who advocate the performance of that duty must be prepared to encounter opposition and witness an ebb-tide in sanitary work. It is imperfect knowledge on our part which gives strength to opposition. It is our duty to persevere in the prosecution of a more perfect work. Motion as opposed to stagnation, simplicity as opposed to complexity, should be our cardinal points; and, if to this we add the peremptory utilisation of animal debris, the sting of epidemic and infectious disease will be taken away, and, in the words of the Psalmist, “ We need not be afraid of the pestilence which walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction which wasteth at noon-day.” It is our duty to strive to reach this point of perfection. It can be obtained only by educating the people as well as ourselves aright, and we must trust to Providence for our reward. riNis.