It took many centuries before sound hygiene really began to occupy the position of importance which it is now known to possess, not only in regard to the treatment and cure of disease, but to its prevention and eradication.
I reviewed some of these anticipations in Italy of our modern hygiene due to thinking physicians, of whom Verallus was one of the pioneers.
There is no doubt that he belongs among the most distinguished of contributors to medical science, and Hirsch declares that anatomy, practical medicine, and hygiene are indebted to him for notable achievements.
Sidenote: Knowledge of health-laws a public necessity] It is truly unfortunate that the general laws of health and hygiene are not more universally taught and understood.
The sexual functions are very closely related to the life of the individual, and can be normal only when the laws of nutrition and of general hygiene are observed.
If laws regarding hygiene instruction are not enforced, we should not be surprised.
The programme for school hygiene outlined in Chapter XXVII, Part IV, assumes that state and county superintendents will provide for the examination of teachers as well as of pupils.
If we can harness it to the promotion of aids to health, it will do more good than all the hygiene books ever written.
By hygiene lessons, illustrating practically the proper methods of cleaning a room, much may be done to enlist school children in the battle against germs.
Mental hygiene has hitherto enjoyed an evil reputation and has been condemned to generally evil associations, because the rank and file have been ignorant of hygiene of every kind.
The chief purpose of school hygiene has hitherto been not to promote personal and community health, but to lessen the use of alcohol and tobacco.
Moreover, it is a fair commentary on the school work and the school hygiene in too many of our towns and cities to-day.
This brilliant campaign of education shows what can be done by national, state, and county superintendents of schools, if they will make the most of school hygiene and civics.
It is fair to the teachers who say they cannot afford to turn aside from the three R's to teach hygiene, to admit that they have not hitherto identified the teaching of hygienewith the promotion of the physical welfare of children.
This work is designed to present the leading facts and principles of human Physiology and Hygiene in clear and concise language, so that pupils in schools and colleges, and readers not familiar with the subjects, may readily comprehend them.
Recent conferences on mental hygiene have emphasized the fact that the traditional conception of mental disease, raving insanity, is far behind the times.
The study of physiology and hygiene affords a wide field for the contemplation and practice of patriotic endeavor.
One of the chief variants of the general subject of physiology and hygiene is sanitation, and this, even yet, affords a field for aggressive and constructive patriotism.
Let us stop the drugs and serums and use common-sense hygiene of the body instead.
He might, however, certainly try by diet and hygiene to get rid of the unpleasant discharge and the noises.
It is subversive of the fundamental principles of sanitary science, while the attainment of health as a prophylactic measure is rational and in harmony with the ascertained laws of hygiene and consistent with the canons of common-sense.
The performance of such an insanitary operation, in the very nature of the case, is a violation of the cardinal principles of hygiene and of sanitary science.
The science of hygiene is the youngest of all the sciences.
But by a better hygiene which is likely to result from the evolution of the race, this greater mortality of the masculine sex is certain in the future to be prevented, and there will then be an excess of men instead of women.
Hygiene interests itself in all that relates to human well-being.
Modern hygiene undertakes to put an end to disease, to save all who are born, to surround them with every influence which can favor their health and development.
With the discoveries of micro-organisms as the cause of a series of the worst diseases, we have begun to place hygiene alongside mathematics and chemistry.
He warns mothers not to allow the clothing to constrict the growing breasts of their daughters, and urges general hygiene as the best method to develop them.
Hygiene will in the future busy itself with this great question.
To diminish the spread of tuberculosis, of typhoid fever, of dysentery, and of many other diseases, it is necessary only to follow the rules of scientific hygiene without waiting for specific remedies.
He who lives strictly in accordance with the rules of hygiene need not fear the bacillus, for man is not born to sickness; he creates sickness for himself by his irrational mode of living.
They served to point the moral of widespread reform--to emphasize the practice of hygiene and sanity.
These are two cornerstones of the foundation on which is now being erected the structure of a rational system of hygiene the purpose of which is to prolong human life by the elimination of disease rather than by its cure.
The history of hygiene or of pedagogy teaches us much in this matter.
A disregard forhygiene disposes a child for infection if the child is exposed to the bacillus.
The hygieneof clothing is also a subject which may be treated summarily in this paper.
The foundation of public hygiene is information as to the occurrence of certain forms of disease, the cause of which can be referred with more or less precision to a certain limited locality.
Late Professor ofHygiene in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Personal hygiene in its relations to the practice of medicine.
There are certain things in relation to hygiene which every physician should know; there are many other things with regard to which it is sufficient if he knows where to find full and reliable information when he needs it.
The problems of hygiene require special knowledge, and the man who is to deal with them requires special training.
Personal Hygiene in its Relations to the Practice of Medicine.
A larger treatment of our present subject belongs rather to hygienethan to practical medicine.
Such are: (a) The problem of industrial hygiene and industrial disease.
The problems of school hygiene and school medicine, since school life is the industrial life of the child, who even receives wages for going to school in some communities.
That is in itself a dangerous condition forhygiene as well as for morals.
That portion of hygiene which is both securely founded upon scientific evidence and useful in the preservation of health, makes up only a very small body of knowledge, so that it can be easily mastered by any intelligent person.
Social welfare is like health, for which sanitation and hygiene are more important than doctors and medicines.
Better health is a matter of the hygiene of the home and the individual, but it has also become a concern of the common life--a community problem.
The new chair of Hygiene was created for him, and he was made Director of the Hygienic Institute.
Cyrilla's solicitude for me extends beyond the commonplaces of hygiene and diet into the uncertain domain of matters ghostly.
Recently, in a few schools, a course of study has been provided for the girls in the care of children, hygieneand nursing.
Even women who never become mothers themselves in this way learn general principles of psychology, hygiene and the care of the sick that they might make use of in every station of life.
Where an attempt at economy is made, the influence of the new science of hygiene is impeded by old ideas of durability.
One page each month devoted to questions of general hygiene and the care of children is edited by a Lithuanian woman physician.
The Pathfinder Series of Text-books on Anatomy, Physiology, andHygiene consists of the following volumes: I.
Hygiene for Young People or, Young People's Physiology.
Sometimes even, half-rising, he delicately pointed out to Madame the tenderest morsel, or turning to the servant, gave her some advice on the manipulation of stews and the hygiene of seasoning.
And one must be master of all the principles of hygiene in order to direct, criticise the construction of buildings, the feeding of animals, the diet of the domestics.
To quote from the "Mental Hygiene Bulletin," published by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene for the United States of America: "Children showing definite problems are selected for more intensive study and treatment.
And since Pythagoras is mute on Sex Hygiene and Cosmic Law, Is your Blonde Beast as Bland a Brute, As Blind a Brute, as Bernard Shaw?
Eugenics and sex hygiene and all these plays and books with a moral purpose, you know.
Do you think that all this study of sex hygiene means the death of romance?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hygiene" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
