 is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth mote perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous,...  Journal of the British Dental Association - Page 775by British Dental Association - 1887Full view - About this book
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1874 - 748 pages
...physical condition of communities and of individuals. It has been defined by Ur. Parkes as the art of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind...other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decav loss rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote. This art, revived in our days, was practised... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1874 - 738 pages
...physical condition of communities and of individuals. It has been defined by Dr. Parkes as the art of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as lung a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1878 - 798 pages
...VI „ 101. Plate VII „276. Plate VIII. » .... „ 814. Plate IX. „ 465. INTRODUCTION, HTGIEXB is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining...as long a period as is consistent with the laws of Же. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous,... | |
 | 1878 - 448 pages
...be necessary if we were not reviewing it for the first time. Hygiene is described by the author as the art of preserving health— that is, of obtaining...as long a period as is consistent with the laws of nature. As the body is affected by every mental and moral action, and the mind is profoundly influenced... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1878 - 830 pages
...1878, page 101. I>TEECTIONS TO BINDER. to to face page 68. „ 99. 101. 276. 314. 465. INTRODUCTION. preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most...during as long a period as is consistent with the ws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous,... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1878 - 804 pages
...Plate VI. ..... „ 101. Plate VII. „ 276. Plate VIII „ 314. Plate IX , 465. INTRODUCTION. HYGIENE is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most perfect at'iion of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the hws of life. In other words,... | |
 | 1879 - 956 pages
...use the very words of Dr. Parkes, taken from the introduction to the book in question : — " Hygiene is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining...during as long a period as is consistent with the laws oflife. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous,... | |
 | American Public Health Association - 1880 - 418 pages
...clearer the object of this essay, and facilitate the consideration of methods. By health is meant : " The most perfect action of body and mind during as...a period as is consistent with the laws of life." — PARKS. Hygiene, as a science, has for its object the discovery of the natural laws which determine... | |
 | George Wilson - 1880 - 330 pages
...OF HYGIENE AND SANITARY SCIENCE" LONDON J. & A. CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET 1880 757. " Hygiene is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and of mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at... | |
 | 1882 - 698 pages
...and sanitation appeal to man's universal desire for life and freedom; they both "promote efforts for obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind...consistent with the laws of life." In other words, education and sanitation unite in endeavoring to render growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life... | |
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