Books .43, 99, 154, 209, 263, 316, 385, 443, 501, 557, 615, 681 Intracerebral Injections of Anti-tetanic Serum in Traumatic Tetanus...575 Neurasthenia in Pulmonary Tuberculosis 515 VOLUME XXIV. JULY, 1904. NUMBER 1. CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING MEDICAL INSPECTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.* By EDWARD JACKSON, M.D., We study disease that life and health may be preserved. Medicine began with men already stricken by wound or poison or infection, and the things looked to for their direct relief. It has advanced to warning them of impending danger, whether from pestilence or tainted food or brittle arteries. The line of continued advance is toward development of the greatest possibilities of life and health by knowledge applied to the whole scheme of living. Hygiene understood, taught, practiced, made dominant in the public schools is the next step in this progress. School hygiene must include attention to actual disease within the schools and provision for its treatment; the immediate suppression of epidemics; the recognition of all physical defects among the pupils, with steps to help secure their correction as far as possible; maintenance of the best sanitary conditions throughout the whole school environment of the child; the training by verbal instruction, exercises and habitual practice of general and individual hygiene; and the inspiring in every scholar the same reverence for health that we seek to instill with regard to patriotism or moral obligation. Without claiming that this work of fundamental and universal importance is to be done wholly by the medical profession, it is obvious that it must at many points be guided by and founded upon that mass of knowledge which has been and is being laboriously accumulated by the medical profession; and much of which is available from no other source. * Read before the American Academy of Medicine at Atlantic City, N. J., June 6, 1904, as part of a report on Hygiene in the Public Schools, and published here courtesy of the Bulletin of the Academy. |