Show Daily Health o- o Service o 0 Editors Editor's Note Preventive Note Preventive medicine has fias made tremendous progress in the thelast thelast last ast several decades and is becoming becom becom- ing lag a big factor in human relations This Is the first of ot three interesting articles explaining what preventive medicine is and what it is doing I By DR l I MORRIS FISHBEIN I Editor Journal of or the American Medical Med led ical leal Association and md of Hygeia the Health Magazine l Preventive medicine includes all measures used by public health officers officers of of- by physicians and by the public pub- pub lie Ic for the prevention of disease For instance the feeding of oh oil and c calcium and the exposure to I sunlight of infants in order to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent rickets is preventive medicine The use of exercise to bring about aboul correct posture so that the spinal growth shall be straight is preventive I medicine The use of at proper shoes so o as to avoid development of ot flat fIat feet teet bunions corns and hammer hammertoes toes is preventive medicine The rec recon recommendation men dation for rest to overcome fa fatigue fatigue fatigue fa- fa tigue a diet including g all of the necessary necessary necessary essary vitamins proteins carbohydrates drates and mineral salts salts' and the drinking of sufficient amo amounts of wa water water wa- wa ter each day is isa a par part f of preventive medicine There is hardly a phase of human life lite in which the knowledge of preventive preventive pre pre-I pre pre- medicine may not be applied The health department sees to it that tha the public has a good water supply I They prevent the sale of infected food tood arrange for proper d disposal of sewage sewage sewage sew sew- age pour oil all on the water in which I mosquitos breed check pasteurization tion of milk advise mothers in the care of the child and In many other was encourage the practice of ot preventive preventive pre pre- medicine Most of our present of preventive preventive preventive pre pre- medicine has grown crown up In re relationship relationship re re- to the knowledge that diseases diseases diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases are caused by germs cerms Hence preventive medicine assumes control of all epidemics in order to prevent proven prevent I those who are not infected from I catching diseases from those who are arc It sees to It Jt that the person with a severe infectious disease is isolated I It provides provid s hospitals for tor the care of people with contagious diseases It keeps the person under restraint during the period known as the incubation period of of the disease a time when the person Is especially Infectious to others without himself showing the disease It keeps him under restraint during the actual presence of the disease and finally i it does not dismiss tho the person until the body is free from the germs that spread diseases This is particularly important because because because be be- cause of the presence of carriers o of disease who are themselves well but bu who carry the germs of the disease In their heir throats throats' or in their intestinal tract and spread them to other peo peo- pIe iI |