Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preventable. But the world has got to be educated in the means of prevention. It is responsible for ulcers and finally cancer. Civilization itself is menaced by it. Of the whole population of Great Britain, at least 5,000,000 will die of cancer unless they are educated about health...
Said he to the representatives of six health agencies in conference...
Because all good parents are jealous of the health of their young, a house guest in a married home usually seeks to ingratiate himself by his knowing and considerate treatment of the babies with which it is blessed. He is aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
...actual facts are quite different. A few people, those of unusual initiative, or ample means, or who happen to be under the care of exceptionally alert physicians, or within the jurisdiction of exceptionally competent health officers, receive the benefits of the new discoveries, but the great mass of the human race goes on as before, and the death rate from the diseases is reduced slowly and over long periods of time...
...fact, the health field has a woefully ineffective distribution service as compared with its marvelously effective production service in the laboratories of the world. We know how to do a lot of things which we don't do, or do on a wretchedly small scale...