Personal HygieneMaurice Le Bosquet |
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Page 215 - ... useful plants, and in exterminating parasitic growths that prey on fruit trees. In fact, the department of agriculture has expended during the last ten years over forty-six millions of dollars. But not a wheel of the official machinery at Washington...
Page 214 - There are four great wastes today, the more lamentable because they are unnecessary. They are preventable death, preventable sickness, preventable conditions of low physical and mental efficiency and preventable ignorance. The magnitude of these wastes is testified to by experts competent to judge. They fall like the shades of night over the whole human race, blotting out its fairest years of happiness.
Page 215 - During the next census period more than six million infants under two years of age will end their little spans of life, while mothers sit by and watch in utter helplessness. And yet this number could probably be decreased by as much as one-half. But nothing is done.
Page 215 - Department of Agriculture has expended during the last ten years over forty-six millions of dollars, But not a wheel of the official machinery at Washington was...
Page 214 - We look with horror on the black plague of the middle ages. The black waste was but a passing cloud compared with the white waste visitation. Of the people living today over eight millions will die of tuberculosis, and the federal government does not raise a hand to help them.
Page 214 - The Department of Agriculture spends seven million dollars on plant health and animal health every year, but, with the exception of the splendid work done by Doctors Wiley, Atwater and Benedict. Congress does not directly appropriate one cent for promoting the physical well-being of babies. Thousands have been expended in stamping out cholera among swine, but not one dollar was ever voted for eradicating pneumonia among human beings. Hundreds of thousands...
Page 214 - But not a wheel of the official machinery at Washington was ever set in motion for the alleviation or cure of diseases of the heart or kidneys, which will carry off over six millions of our entire population.
Page 214 - Wiley, Atwater and Benedict. Congress does not directly appropriate one cent for promoting the physical well-being of babies. Thousands have been expended in stamping out cholera among swine, but not one dollar was ever voted for eradicating pneumonia among human beings. Hundreds of thousands are consumed in saving the lives of elm trees from the attacks of beetles; in warning farmers against blights affecting potato plants; in importing Sicilian bugs to fertilize fig blossoms in California: in...
Page 98 - That the sins of the fathers are visited on the children unto the third and fourth generation is not a piece of rhetoric, but a stern fact.
Page 13 - The nervous system The nervous system consists of the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves that issue from them.