Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics Volume 27 (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. 1918 Excerpt: ...If, as the result of the supreme and essential sacrifices of this war, we necessarily or voluntarily safeguard human life--men, women, mothers and little children--the saving will exceed the waste. Already this war has emancipated men from the slavery of alcohol--the greatest curse and blight upon humanity. The gain in food products will be incalculable. The tilling of the soil will be raised to the nth power, which will make for homebuilding. National safety will oblige essential reforms of our tenement system; our slums; of capital, that it should not get more than a reasonable and just profit; of labor, that it receive its full and fair reward. It will insure equal opportunities for women; it will signal the end of fabulous fortunes. The wealthy classes will be quickened into keener appreciation of citizenship. Statesmen will be recruited from men of parts, instead of from politicians. In lieu of luxurious indulgence, abstemiousness will be the fashion. The creed of physical fitness will be embraced, universal military training will probably become effective, for physical reasons, if not for martial needs. The social disease which has heretofore been considered the inevitable pestilence of armies is being fought with every imaginable agency--education, recreation, diversion, protection, isolation, prophylaxis, penalties and court-martial. Many thousands of young men will, for the first time on a wholesale plan, be taught the whole truth by all sorts of real men, and purity made a cult, a win-thewar asset. After the war the idea will permeate all strata of society and be a real understandable and livable benefaction. It will disseminate throughout America the practice of personal hygiene by uncounted numbers of young men. The beneficent results to accrue ...