Paper read before the British Association.—Elec. Engineer.
On the "Effective and Rapid Induction of General Anæsthesia," the New York Medical Journal, October 22 and December 24, 1887.
EYESIGHT: ITS CARE DURING INFANCY AND YOUTH.[1]
By L. WEBSTER FOX, M.D.
Medical science, as taught in our medical colleges to-day, has two objects in view: (1) the prevention of disease; (2) the amelioration of disease and its cure. Some of our advanced thinkers are suggesting a new mode of practice, that is the prevention of disease by proper hygienic measures. Chairs are being established and professors appointed to deliver lectures on hygiene. Of what value is the application of therapeutics if the human economy is so lowered in its vital forces that dissolution is inevitable? Is it not better to prevent disease than to try the cure after it has become established, or has honeycombed the constitution?