 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 196edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Iowa. State Department of Health - Public health - 1885 - 602 pages
...and sanitation appeal to man's universal desire for life and freedom; they both promote effort* for obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind...consistent with the laws of life." In other words, education and sanitation unite in endeavoring to render growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life... | |
 | Iowa. Board of Health - 1885 - 606 pages
...and sanitation appeal to man's universal desire for life and freedom; they both promote efforts for obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind...as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life.1' In other words, education and sanitation unite in endeavoring to render growth more perfect,... | |
 | George Wilson - Diseases - 1885 - 342 pages
...CO., No. 1012 Walnut Street. 1885. GIFT CF LEDYARD VCRTMIrtGTG.! SAGS LIST JUriE 22, 1938 " Hygiene is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and of mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at... | |
 | Engineering - 1886 - 542 pages
...RECENT ADVANCES IN SANITARY SCIENCE. From "Nature." " HYGIENE," in the words of the late Professor Parkes, " is the art of preserving health ; that is,...life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote." The art of preserving health... | |
 | Boilers - 1886 - 210 pages
...cost more than four-fifths than all the rest. Hygiene. "Hygiene," in the words of the late Professor Parkes, "is the art of preserving health ; that is,...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, death moie remote."... | |
 | British Dental Association - Dentistry - 1887 - 878 pages
...Parke's work on practical hygiene, is characterized by a masterly conciseness, " Hygiene," he observes, " 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." Dr. Wilson, in the introductory... | |
 | 1888 - 438 pages
...Parke's work on practical hygiene, is characterized by a masterly conciseness, " Hygiene," he observes, " 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." Dr. Wilson, in the introductory... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1891 - 848 pages
...Plate IV. .... ,,357 Plate V „ 432 Plates VI. to IX. ... „ 684 Plate X. 710 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... | |
 | Hygiene - 1893 - 766 pages
...recent elementary text- books are devoting relatively more space to hygiene. "Hygiene," according to Parkes, "is the art of preserving health ; that is,...with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at making growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote. ' ' I need hardly... | |
 | Kansas State Board of Health - Public health - 1891 - 288 pages
...prevention of disease. Sanitary science — otherwise called hygiene — has been well defined to be ''the art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining...consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aim's at rendering .growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote."... | |
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