American Medical Gazette and Journal of Health (Volume 4) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1853 Excerpt: ... mented the physical power of the State one-sixth. If a reformatory change in the habits of the people pertaining to a single article as a beverage had wrought, or was capable of effecting (and no true physiologist will hesitate to admit it) such a valuable result, what arithmetic can calculate the advantages upon the public, especially in our cities and more densely peopled villages of a complete system of health measures, such as it is within the province of legislators to require, and in the power of the people to adopt. Such, however, cannot be expected until the public are made acquainted with the lessons which our system of registration is teaching, by having them presented in plain and comprehensive language. Not these alone, but our English neighbors, who were our pioneers in laws and investigations upon the subject of public health, are furnishing annually a mass of information on the subject, corroborative of, or, rather, they are so extensive and systematic as to demonstrate with almost mathematical precision the truths which our reports shadow forth. "When the facts on this subject become generally known among our citizens, as they have been presented in countries abroad--England, France, Germany, Sweden, Prussia, &c. &c. they cannot fail to awaken public sentiment and enlist a universal interest here, as it has in other places." Pathological Inquiry. It is so often that autopsic inquiries are unproductive of any valuable result, and sometimes so confounding to the practitioner by overthrowing his diagnosis, and revealing morbid lesions unsuspected during life, that the question has been mooted whether it is worth while to urge upon reluctant relatives to permit such post mortem researches, unless there is some important reason for investigation, ...