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Excerpt from Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health: With Special Reference to the Causation and Prevention of Infectious Diseases
The last quarter of the century has witnessed the firm establishment and fruitful development of these several conceptions. The principal theories to which they have given birth have been thoroughly tested, and stand to-day for the most part as accepted scientific principles; while their applications to the practical conduct of life have everywhere been followed by results of extraordinary in terest and importance. Public hygiene and state medicine have become subjects compelling the attention of states men and affecting the welfare of nations. Sanitary law has been endowed with unusual privileges and powers, and sanitary regulations controlling the commerce of the civilized world are debated in international congresses. Sanitary science and preventive medicine, terms practically unknown before this century, have become almost house hold words. Sanitary arts of great range and importance have grown up; vast sums are annually spent for private, and especially for public, sanitation; and human life has been made safer, longer and probably happier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
