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bulletin- n. c. board of health. 173 iu that portion of the universe not ourselves lie many, perhaps most, of the sources of our sickness. The call to health is thus largely a call to beware of our environment, f. e., of the things about us, and here at last we can agree with the monastics. But, again, the unwisdom of a philosophy which bids us turn our eyes heavenward and neglect things close at hand becomes painfully manifest. Nor is the newer doctrine merely an enlightened selfishness; it is practical altruism, also, for it recognizes the solidarity of mankind and the fact that whoever purifies drinking-water or dirty milk from the germs of disease; whoever promotes temperance or avoids sickness in himself or his household, lifts a burden from other men's shoulders and increases the potential efficiency of some other of those units of which the whole body politic is made up. The call of the age to health is a call to sacrifice and to service, both personal and public; and the call to service has been the deepening undertone of the call to humanism, all along the ages. Sophocles, in his day, urged it upon the Athenians, and GEdipus seizes upon public service for his final passionate appeal to the prophet Teiresias for aid against the plague with which the land was cursed: "For in thee is our hope; and a man's noblest task is to help others, by his best means and powers." Our modern cynics may smile at the inconsistency of an age like our own which is constantly preaching the gospel of service and efficiency, and yet suffers grievously from bad domestic service and bad municipal service; but physicians, at least, do not need to be told that it is one thing to prescribe for a patient and quite another to persuade that patient to follow good advice. Let us next inquire what responses these various calls of the scientific age for life and health have hitherto awakened or are now awakening, and what should be the attitude of the young men just graduating in medicine toward the new movement. The first, though perhaps in part unconscious, responses were those of the eighteenth century reformers, Voltaire, Beccaria, Turgot and others, in France, and Lady Montagu, John Howard, Captain Cook the navigator, and, above all, Edward Jenner, in England. The eighteenth century, and especially that portion of it iu which Mr. John Morley has happily located the scientific renascence, consciously or unconsciously felt the beginning of the new movement; and in Voltaire's "Man of Calas," in Captain Cook's famous second voyage, in John Howard' s travels and revelations, in Lady Montagu's introduction of inoculation and Jenner's work on vaccination for smallpox, began to shake off medieval ideas of life, death, health, dirt and disease, and to prepare for Virchow and Darwin, and Pasteur and Koch and von Behring in the nineteenth century. As one of the foremost responses of the nineteenth century we must put that perhaps unconscious one which began, we are told, exactly a century ago, and which is known as the temperance movement. Under whatever form.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-03: Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1909-1910 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-024 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 24 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 173 |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1909-1910 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-024-0187 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 24 |
Issue Number | 11 |
Page Number | 173 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | bulletin- n. c. board of health. 173 iu that portion of the universe not ourselves lie many, perhaps most, of the sources of our sickness. The call to health is thus largely a call to beware of our environment, f. e., of the things about us, and here at last we can agree with the monastics. But, again, the unwisdom of a philosophy which bids us turn our eyes heavenward and neglect things close at hand becomes painfully manifest. Nor is the newer doctrine merely an enlightened selfishness; it is practical altruism, also, for it recognizes the solidarity of mankind and the fact that whoever purifies drinking-water or dirty milk from the germs of disease; whoever promotes temperance or avoids sickness in himself or his household, lifts a burden from other men's shoulders and increases the potential efficiency of some other of those units of which the whole body politic is made up. The call of the age to health is a call to sacrifice and to service, both personal and public; and the call to service has been the deepening undertone of the call to humanism, all along the ages. Sophocles, in his day, urged it upon the Athenians, and GEdipus seizes upon public service for his final passionate appeal to the prophet Teiresias for aid against the plague with which the land was cursed: "For in thee is our hope; and a man's noblest task is to help others, by his best means and powers." Our modern cynics may smile at the inconsistency of an age like our own which is constantly preaching the gospel of service and efficiency, and yet suffers grievously from bad domestic service and bad municipal service; but physicians, at least, do not need to be told that it is one thing to prescribe for a patient and quite another to persuade that patient to follow good advice. Let us next inquire what responses these various calls of the scientific age for life and health have hitherto awakened or are now awakening, and what should be the attitude of the young men just graduating in medicine toward the new movement. The first, though perhaps in part unconscious, responses were those of the eighteenth century reformers, Voltaire, Beccaria, Turgot and others, in France, and Lady Montagu, John Howard, Captain Cook the navigator, and, above all, Edward Jenner, in England. The eighteenth century, and especially that portion of it iu which Mr. John Morley has happily located the scientific renascence, consciously or unconsciously felt the beginning of the new movement; and in Voltaire's "Man of Calas" in Captain Cook's famous second voyage, in John Howard' s travels and revelations, in Lady Montagu's introduction of inoculation and Jenner's work on vaccination for smallpox, began to shake off medieval ideas of life, death, health, dirt and disease, and to prepare for Virchow and Darwin, and Pasteur and Koch and von Behring in the nineteenth century. As one of the foremost responses of the nineteenth century we must put that perhaps unconscious one which began, we are told, exactly a century ago, and which is known as the temperance movement. Under whatever form. |
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