General Hygiene (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Thomas A. Storey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330000773 ISBN 13 : 9781330000779

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

?It is easy for the modern practitioner of medicine to take for granted the rigorous standards of hygienic practice that prevail today. Washing one''s hands, the use of alcohol and heat to sterilise tools and the appropriate level of quarantine to be applied in case of various disease or infections.

The more historically aware reader will know that our present traditions have developed gradually over centuries and evolved with every scientific discovery. In 1920 Thomas A Storey grasped the challenge forcefully and encouraged the young men of the College of the City of New York to do the same.

The effort to codify hygienic practices for the medical practitioner either in training or seeking to develop was an enormous step forward in the medical world. Thomas Storey began this task and produced a book which is as comprehensive as it is engaging. The insight into medical tradition and the way in which medical discoveries percolated through health professionals in the early 20th century.

It is invigorating to this day to read Storey’s exhortation in General Hygiene to seize health as a resource for oneself, and for the doctor to seize on behalf of their patients. He shows a forward thinking outlook in these pages, in an age where the effects of tobacco addiction and alcoholism were barely considered, Dr. Storey has a nuanced and fascinating approach to the protection of health. Prepare to be told to run, to swim, to read but also to see progressive opposition to the careless use of lead and arsenic. To avoid taking for granted, what might now be considered common sense or practice, immerse yourself in a work written by a creative professional, in an era where our truths were utterly contested.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hygiene. The science and the art of preserving health. "A part of the wisdom of the Egyptians at least 1500 B.C."

General Hygiene. The natural laws that govern health. The science of hygiene includes scientific information concerning the agents that injure health, the contributory causes of poor health, the carriers of disease, the defenses of health and the producers of health (constructive hygiene).

Individual Hygiene. The applications of the natural laws of hygiene for the health welfare of the individual.

Group Hygiene. The applications of the natural laws of hygiene for the health welfare of groups of individuals, the members of a group being associated more or less intimately with each other for considerable periods of time under common environmental influences, common hygienic advantages and disadvantages and under common health responsibilities and regulations. Includes the hygiene of such groups as the family, the school, the occupations and certain public institutions.

Intergroup Hygiene. The application of the natural laws of hygiene for the health welfare of associated groups of humans, the several groups being dominated by common interests, exposed to common health dangers and competent to establish and enforce common standards of individual and group responsibility for community health. Includes the hygiene of the rural community, the village, the city, the town or township, the county, the State, the nation and alliance of nations.

The subject matter of individual hygiene, group hygiene and intergroup hygiene falls very logically into several main divisions. These divisions have been designated in this syllabus as: Educational hygiene, informational hygiene, defensive hygiene, and constructive hygiene.

The important subdivisions of defensive hygiene are protective hygiene, preventive hygiene, remedial hygiene, and aggressive hygiene.

Educational hygiene is the instruction or training in hygiene that leads to the formation of habits of good judgment in matters that relate to health, and to the formation of good habits of conduct in relation to the preservation of health.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330000773
• ISBN 13: 9781330000779
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 150
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