Show Disease in the Schools I said in my address at the health congress at Brighton what was quite true that I had never in my life seen a healthy child by which I meant that I had never Been a child that had not in it either some actual or latent constitutional disease dis-ease Touching the subject now in hand it is equally true to say that it is all but impossible to find in the board schools of our large towns any semblance critically viewed of health Constitutional taints which under favorable circumstances may often be concealed and which mayor may-or may not be apparent are there Various conditions of disease are there independently of the ten dency from heredity there of themselves them-selves in some irrpgnlaniy of body or limb in sorm coperfection of sense in M ire cU > tJencMwjcv of quality of blond 311 soiut1 < = i iii itlItss of res piiaiiti jii M > me IIP1 ow nregu lanry of funs tiou it souse hade rf mental aberration rim Hold df di ea > e which ie presented pre-sented in some 111 l the srhoolb situated situ-ated in clouded localities is indeed a sight at once for anxiety and pity To the eye of a physician who like myself has spent many years in dispensary practice it tells a story which is absolutely painful if he permit the results to be calculated out in his mind at leisure hours if that is to say he compares what he has witnessed in his survey with what he has learned from long observation ob-servation of the meaning of the phenomena in the history of life It is not necessary to strip the children percuss and sound the chest examine the spine or practice any of those refined arts of diagnosis diagno-sis with which he is familiar He reads from the indications of temperament tem-perament of expression of countenances coun-tenances of color of skin of posi tion of limb of build of body of gait of voice sufficient outward manifestation to discern what is the true physical state what are the stamp and extent of disease what is the vital value of the lives generally gener-ally that are before himDr R W Richardson in Popular Science Monthly |