Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — Preventing Disease. [ARTICLE]

Preventing Disease.

Bt. Louis Magazine / Of all the thousands of patents granted yearly, how many are of eve|i a supposed sanitary nature? Not fifty. _ There is little or nothing being done to preserve health. Physicians surround their art with mystery and endeavor to cure disease, and not prevent it What physician knows anything about the sanitary condition of a dwelling houqe? Who would call in a doctor to see if his plumbing is in order? No one. The ordinary doctor knows no more of sanitary conditions than a child. It is hot required of him; it is not taught in the medical colleges. His business] is with pills and potions. Suppose the earnest attention of the eighty thousand physicians of the United States was tumed to the prevention of disease instead of the cure of it.—what a revolution would that accomplish in a century. And this is what the millionaire of the future will demand: health to enjoy his millions.