Suncooked food : a treatise on how to get the highest form of human energy from food / by Eugene Christian.

  • Christian, Eugene, 1860-1930
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: Suncooked food : a treatise on how to get the highest form of human energy from food / by Eugene Christian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The present practice of medicine contemplates disease. It waits until disease appears—waits for the crisis, and then undertakes to combat it with drugs. Under the wise administration of a National Health Department, the object would be to prevent disease by removing its causes. Doubtless the medical profession will remind the public of the dangers that lurk in governmental control of what is now a private industry. Why should the government not control that which determines its strength or weakness ? Surely all of the people (represented by their government) should have a voice in a matter that concerns every one’s happiness. Health and education, physical and mental upliftment, go hand in hand ; they are the things that can be controlled by the people, for they appeal to and interest all alike, and are too vital to every citizen to permit of in- efficiency or graft. Progress in the educational world is now measured by the distance we have travelled from the fee system—the system on which the medical profession still operates. Should we have a National Department of Health, the bureau of pure foods should be its chief subdivision. This bureau would not only forbid the manufacturer from putting sulphites in his deviled ham, but would teach the people by popular publication and by co- operation with the public school system, that deviled ham is at best a poor substitute for natural food. A National Department of Health, working in conjunction with our public