North Carolina Medical Journal. Vol. 3. No. 4. April, 1879

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Number 4. Wilmington, April, 1879. Vol. 3.
By Albert R. Ledoux, Ph. D., Chapel Hill, N. C.
Every man must have his vocation; every one his specialty. We are all dependent on others, whenever problems outside of our own line of business or research demand a solution.
Recognizing these truths, every man should feel that he owes a duty to his fellows, and that his motto should not only be “live and let live,” but also “live and help live.”
No science has done more gratuitously , for the advancement of the human race, than medicine.
No other vocation gives away so much of invention, research, time, labor, money, to make men stronger, happier, better.
Following out her lofty aims, medicine has called to her aid sister sciences, and united with them to build up new safeguards around humanity.
Thus, for example, medicine has united with chemistry and architecture to form “Sanitary Science,” with all its details of work and endeavor for the health of nations, towns, villages and homes.
No question which sanitary science discusses and investigates, is more important than the relation of drinking water to health.
The one grand cry of humanity—yes, of the brute creation, and of the vegetable world too—“is give me something to eat and drink.” Dame Nature furnishes about two hundred and fifty articles to man for food, giving him the greatest variety, from which to choose, when hungry; but, when he would slake his material thirst, she offers simply water. It is the most abundant thing upon earth, as every school-boy knows.