What, therefore, is to be recommended in theprophylaxis of the natural deterioration of the wells of life, the ductless glands?
But in more than thirty states the immediate reporting of infants' sore eyes is compulsory, and in thirteen states the prophylaxis is distributed free to doctors and midwives.
For various reasons, it is difficult to pass a law making the use of a prophylaxis compulsory, and in only a few states has this been done.
Treatment, therefore, both of the individual and of the family is largely a question of prophylaxis or prevention.
In prophylaxis of the family the first indication is to stop the production of degenerates.
Prophylaxis of degeneracy in the individual should commence with the birth of the child.
At this time he commenced his studies on dental erosion, on the development of the teeth, and on the prophylaxis of dental maladies, his favorite subject.
On this question he rightly establishes the principle that hygiene and dental prophylaxis should begin from the period of the formation of the milk teeth.
His book, which was also translated into German,[473] contributed to the diffusion of knowledge relative to dental prophylaxis and therapeutics, but apart from this brought no increment to the progress of practical dentistry.
The prophylaxis of dental diseases is beyond any doubt one of the best parts of the book; however, the ten rules counselled by Ryff for keeping the teeth healthy—rules which Dr.
He was somewhat astonished at finding in this celebrated author’s work hardly anything on the subjects that principally interested him, that is, the erosion, the development of the teeth, and the prophylaxis of caries.
Chapter XL (page 177) treats of dental tartar, of its cause, of the harmful effects it produces, and of the prophylaxis and therapy relating thereto.
The fact that the American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis was organized by a group of people in New York City tended from the beginning to make it a local society.
He mentioned only two points wherein there is apparent conflict, namely, prophylaxis that allows immorality while avoiding venereal disease, and prevention of conception.
Thus, the American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis started as an avowed enemy of the social diseases and so it has continued to the present.
Charity is of course admitted to be her special work, yet these scholars cannot help but regret that more was not done in social prophylaxis by the encouragement of education.
In a word the lessons in sanitation andprophylaxis of the Thirteenth Century are only now bearing fruit, because the intervening centuries did not have sufficient knowledge to realize their import and take advantage of them.
Use of prophylaxis for specific diseases (such as antimalarial tablets) (see FM 4-02.
A lack of prophylaxis and immunizations with resultant increases in the susceptible faction of a given population.
For many agents, immunization or pre-exposure prophylaxis with antibiotics may prevent illness in those subsequently exposed.
He recommends the adoption of this procedure in the prophylaxis of syphilis.
When an imperfect nerve supply is the main factor underlying ulcer formation, prophylaxis is the chief consideration.
The earliest advocacy of castration, which I have met with as a part of negative eugenics, for the specific "purpose of prophylaxis as applied to race improvement and the protection of society," is by Dr.
The injection of a killed culture of a specific bacterium as a means of prophylaxis or cure of the disease caused by that microorganism.
Treatment+ in those predisposed to diabetes and tabes, deserves prophylaxis consideration.
The influence of the department is not very far-reaching, and the prophylaxis of disease is still in its infancy.
A number of medical officers accordingly gave instruction to their men in the means of effectingprophylaxis and of preventing infection in the event of association with these women.
The prophylaxis of disease really implies organised and co-operative effort, and can only be effectively undertaken by those public-health officials who are charged with it as a definite function.
But of the prophylaxis of disease they have little trained knowledge, and they are not seriously interested.
This mixture is recommended by the manufacturer: “For the prophylaxis and Treatment of Common Colds, Mixed Infections of the Respiratory Mucous Membranes, Acute and Chronic Catarrhal Conditions of the Nose, Throat and Respiratory Passages.
Physicians have been and are being deluged with literature on the prophylaxis and treatment of influenza.
The most important means of prophylaxisin these cases is to have patients who must assume the standing position for some hours each day, exercise their legs rather vigorously.
There is an important therapeutic method for the prophylaxis of these conditions that has been attracting attention and yet probably not all the attention it deserves in recent years.
The best prophylaxis for them is occupation of mind.
In any discussion of the prophylaxis of suicide the effect of newspaper descriptions of previous suicides must be looked upon as very important.
Prophylaxis of the habit is an ethical question that we can scarcely do justice to here.
Physicians must work as much for this prophylaxis as we have for the prevention of infectious diseases.
For general prophylaxis the physician needs to throw all the weight of his influence toward the correction of unfortunate tendencies in our present-day life and healthier subjects of thought should be encouraged.
Some suggestions are valuable for the prophylaxis of complications.
The physician, therefore, must be ready to secure prophylaxis against psychic contagion and then by counter-suggestion relieve the patient, who has become afflicted by it, of the resulting disturbance of mind.
The mental prophylaxis of suggestion must alter the state of mind both before and during the progress of the condition.
Prophylaxis of the acts requires consideration of the physical and moral factors that predispose to their commission.
The movement that he initiated still lives in the temperance societies of the English-speaking peoples everywhere which help by prophylaxis in youth and the moral force of association in later life.
Individual prophylaxis is based essentially, therefore, on the avoidance of contact with individuals likely to harbor lice.
Prophylaxis against typhus fever is, therefore, primarily a question of vermin extermination.
Community prophylaxis efficiently and intelligently carried out is, from a certain point of view, probably easier and more effective in protecting the individual than is the individual's own effort to guard himself.
Prophylaxis should be carried out along three lines: (1) Separation of the sick from the healthy animals.
Treatment is absolutely useless, so far as we know at present, and for all practical purposes prophylaxis alone should be relied upon.
In treating cases of contagious disease the question often arises as to means of individual prophylaxis to be used by those who must be exposed to the effects of the infected locality or of the presence of the sick.
The prophylaxis of erysipelas is that of all contagious diseases.
In prophylaxisthe soil demands the first attention.
Efficient measures of prophylaxisare as yet unknown.
In the present state of our knowledge the most reliable and certain prophylaxis is the isolation of patient and nurses, and the thorough and judicious employment of disinfectants upon their persons and in the apartments.
In order to prevent the propagation of this disease we must have recourse to administrative prophylaxis, prophylaxis by persuasion, and prophylaxis by medical measures.
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On the Prophylaxis of Hereditary Syphilis and its Eugenic Effect).
Celibacy of the insane is the prophylaxis of insanity in the race.
The profit, therefore, which childhood prophylaxis can yield is most dubious; it seems, indeed, that better success in the prevention of neuroses can be gained by attacking the problem through a changed attitude toward facts.
A was not quite so proper; he paid occasional visits elsewhere, and as instruction in venereal prophylaxis was not included in his college course, he acquired a gonorrhea, which it took him about six months to get rid of.
What has preceded has reference chiefly to the prophylaxis of jealousy, to the prevention of the development of this disease in the future.
But the one objection I have never heard from a doctor is the objection that prophylaxis by the inoculatory methods most in vogue is an economic impossibility under our private practice system.
They say, "Prophylaxis is under favorable circumstances secondary only in effectiveness to actual prevention of exposure.
And yet prophylaxis is objected to on the grounds that it is immoral: that it invites to sexual indulgence by providing immunity from infection.
Venereal diseases were nature's punishment for impurity; to provide prophylaxis was to insult the pure youth, to hurry on to sin the youth who was not pure.
We come now to the prophylaxis which is to be adopted in the intervals of the paroxysms when neuralgia has been actually set up.
It will be important to insist that the patient shall take the bath only after that shorter method which I have described in speaking of the prophylaxis of true neuralgia.
Hygiene andprophylaxis are in course of development, and a vast prospect is open to them in the future.
But, surely, one day science will succeed in doing so; that will be chiefly throughprophylaxis and rational hygiene.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophylaxis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: epidemiology; hygiene; prophylaxis; sanitation
