To George W. Goler, M.D., a type of the courageous, unselfish, andfar-sighted health official, whom the enlightened and progressive city ofRochester, N. Y., hires to keep it well, on the “Chinese plan,”this book is inscribed, with the hope that it may, by exercising some influencein the hygienic education of the public, aid the work which he and his fellowguardians of the public health are so laboriously and devotedly performingthroughout the nation.
To dogmatise on questions of medical practice is to invite controversy andtempt disaster. The highest wisdom of to-day may be completely refuted byto-morrow’s discovery. Therefore, for the simple principles of diseaseprevention and health protection which I have put into the mouth of my HealthMaster, I make no claim of finality. In support of them I maintain only thatthey represent the progressive specialized thought of modern medical science.So far as is practicable I have avoided questions upon which there is seriousdifference of belief among the authorities. Where it has been necessary totouch upon these, as, for example, in the chapter on methods of isolation incontagious diseases, a question which arises sooner or later in everyhousehold, I have advocated those measures which have the support of the bestrational probability and statistical support.
Not only has the book been prepared in consultation with the recognizedauthorities on public health and preventive medicine, but every chapter hasbeen submitted to the expert criticism of specialists upon the particularsubject treated. My own ideas and theories I have advanced only in suchpassages as deal with the relation of the physician and of the citizen to thesocial and ethical phases of public health. To the large number of medicalscientists, both public and private, whose generous aid and counsel have mademy work possible, I gratefully acknowledge my debt. My thanks are due also forpermission to reprint, to the Delineator, in which most of the chaptershave appeared serially; to Collier’s Weekly, and to theLadies’ Home Journal.
The Author.
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