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" The art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous,... "
Nature - Page 196
edited by - 1886
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A Manual of practical hygiene c. 2

Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1866 - 718 pages
...592 594 697 597 603 604 606 607 610 611 fi!2 612 614 814 615 615 615 615 619 INTRODUCTION. HYOIEXE is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining...life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote. This art has been practised...
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Nature, Volume 1

Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1870 - 694 pages
...original definition to all these alterations of it. Dr. Parkes thinks so too, for he says, " Hygiene is the art of preserving health, that is, of obtaining...life ; in other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote.'' And now we come to the extension...
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A manual of practical hygiene, for use in the medical service of the army

Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1873 - 814 pages
...times. Percentage of nitrogen in soil dried at 212' . •073 •240 •383 •446 INTRODUCTION. HYGIENE is the art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining...life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote. This art has been practised...
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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1874 - 748 pages
...physical condition of communities and of individuals. It has been defined by Ur. Parkes as the art of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind...life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decav loss rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote. This art, revived in our days,...
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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1874 - 738 pages
...physical condition of communities and of individuals. It has been defined by Dr. Parkes as the art of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as lung a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more...
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Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of ..., Volume 5

Wisconsin. State Board of Health - Public health - 1881 - 216 pages
...a broader field to explore than the first thought would suggest, perhaps. A good general definition is: "The art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining...life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote." In the largest sense it is...
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A Manual of Practical Hygiene

Edmund Alexander Parkes - Hygiene - 1878 - 798 pages
...VI „ 101. Plate VII „276. Plate VIII. » .... „ 814. Plate IX. „ 465. INTRODUCTION, HTGIEXB is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining...as long a period as is consistent with the laws of Же. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous,...
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The Sanitary Record, Volume 8

Municipal engineering - 1878 - 448 pages
...be necessary if we were not reviewing it for the first time. Hygiene is described by the author as the art of preserving health— that is, of obtaining...as long a period as is consistent with the laws of nature. As the body is affected by every mental and moral action, and the mind is profoundly influenced...
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A Manual of practical hygiene

Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1878 - 830 pages
...1878, page 101. I>TEECTIONS TO BINDER. to to face page 68. „ 99. 101. 276. 314. 465. INTRODUCTION. preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most...during as long a period as is consistent with the ws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous,...
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A Manual of Practical Hygiene

Edmund Alexander Parkes - Hygiene - 1878 - 804 pages
...Plate VI. ..... „ 101. Plate VII. „ 276. Plate VIII „ 314. Plate IX , 465. INTRODUCTION. HYGIENE is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most perfect at'iion of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the hws of life. In other words,...
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