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By Dona Schneider Ph.D. M.P.H., Dr. David E. Lilienfeld M.D. M.P.H., Professor Warren Winkelstein
Public health and wellbeing as a self-discipline grew out of conventional Western medication yet multiplied to incorporate pursuits in social coverage, hygiene, epidemiology, infectious illness, sanitation, and well-being schooling. This e-book, the 1st of a two-volume set, is a suite of significant and consultant ancient texts that serve to track and to light up the improvement of conceptions, guidelines, and coverings in public healthiness from the sunrise of Western civilization in the course of the revolutionary period of the early 20th century.
The editors supply annotated readings and biographical info to punctuate the historic timeline and to supply scholars with insights into the development of rules, projects, and reforms within the box. From Hippocrates and John Graunt within the early interval, to John Snow and Florence Nightingale through the nineteenth-century sanitary reform circulation, to Upton Sinclair and Margaret Sanger within the innovative period, readers stick to the id, evolution, and implementation of public well-being strategies as they got here jointly less than one self-discipline.
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Manly courage, endurance of suffering, laborious enterprise, and high spirit, could not be produced in such a state of things either among the native inhabitants or those of a different country, for there pleasure necessarily reigns. 22 Thus it is, as I think, with the Egyptians and Libyans. XIII. But concerning those on the right hand of the summer risings of the sun as far as the Palus Maeotis23 (for this is the boundary of Europe and Asia), it is with them as follows: the inhabitants there differ far more from one another than those I have treated of above, owing to the differences of the seasons and the nature of the soil.
Wherefore, of all kinds of water, these spoil the soonest; and rain water has a bad spot smell, because its particles are collected and mixed together from most objects, so as to spoil the soonest. And in addition to this, when attracted and raised up, being carried about and mixed with the air, whatever part of it is turbid and darkish is separated and removed from the other, and becomes cloud and mist, but the most attenuated and lightest part is left, and becomes sweet, being heated and concocted by the sun, for all other things when concocted become sweet.
Wherefore, of all kinds of water, these spoil the soonest; and rain water has a bad spot smell, because its particles are collected and mixed together from most objects, so as to spoil the soonest. And in addition to this, when attracted and raised up, being carried about and mixed with the air, whatever part of it is turbid and darkish is separated and removed from the other, and becomes cloud and mist, but the most attenuated and lightest part is left, and becomes sweet, being heated and concocted by the sun, for all other things when concocted become sweet.