Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With every wish for your enjoyment of happiness, health and prosperity through a long future of like usefulness, I remain...
This unwillingness on the part of physicians to do themselves and their cause common justice in the eyes of the public is a neglect of the obligation owed to humanity by medical men. Unquestionably doctors are better qualified than any one else to preach sound health, yet they are willing to leave the job to unorganized public opinion. When they feel a lack of public support, they complain that they have no time to defend themselves. This is an age of strenuous advertising, in which every cause, no matter how worthwhile, must constantly justify itself before the public or fall...
...doctrine of health can be sold effectively only by constantly advertising the idea to the public. However much physicians may deplore the necessity of thrusting themselves into the lime-light, they cannot rely on common sympathy to champion a business which does not really concern them...
Purer water, increasing the supply to a billion gallons a day; better police and fire protection; cleaner streets; improved health conditions--Contributing to New York City's conspicuous place among the safest and healthiest cities in the world...
...Vanderbilt himself writes us as follows: 'I know of no better provision for the bodily health of the student than scientific physical culture exercise. There is to my mind a far more important consideration than the benefit that I am sure the student body residing in the dormitory would derive from such a form of prescribed daily exercise. From the best of teachers, personal experience of the good which it has done their own minds and bodies, the students would learn the benefit which would accrue to their future patients and mankind, by prescribing and encouraging exercises of a similar...