Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three or four years ago Dr. Cabot had occasion to spend the night with a doctor in a small town in Vermont. He was informed that this man had nearly lost his practice because the efficient work of the state and local boards of health had prevented much sickness. The public side of the doctor's interest is driving out his private interest...
...boards of health existed, but the amount of their activities was not one-fiftieth of what it is today. The movement against tuberculosis is a striking example of the work that boards of health and hospitals are doing free of charge. All this free work threatens doctor's incomes and they feel it. More or less as a result of this the number of medical students in the country is decreasing...
During the slack season of the year when the majority of outdoor sports are at a low ebb, the gymnasium becomes the general resort of those desiring exercise, health or athletic amusement. That boxing, indoor running, jumping, calisthenics and other gymnastic games furnish welcome opportunities for satisfying these desires is evinced by the fact that over five hundred men use it daily. So large a number overcrowd the present gymnasium, with its inadequate arrangement and appliances, but until the University is presented with a new gymnasium or is able to build an addition to the present one, such overcrowding...
...nation throughout our entire history. Enormous sums of money have been spent, and yet there is practically no taint of corruption in connection with spending them. American officials on small salaries have gone down to that tropical isthmus, have made it so healthy as to be almost a health resort, and have expended huge sums of money with vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there is not even a suspicion of a dollar having been taken by any of them. Very, very few private business...
...PATHOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The New Harvard Doctorate in Public Health." Dr. Rosenau.--"Bacillary Dysentery: its Bacteriology and Biochemistry with Relation to Treatment." Dr. Kendall.--"Review of Fuchs on Melanotic Sarcoma." Dr. Verhoeff. Amphitheatre, Building D, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, 4 P. M. Open to members of the University and physicians...