Excerpt from Preventive Medicine in Relation to the Public Health: Being Lectures and Addresses Delivered at St. Thomas's Hospital and Elsewhere; Revised by the Author Hope that they will be found useful to those who are striving to grapple with disease, so as to assist them to diminish its gravity and impede its incidence in particular districts. They are suggestive as to further progress in disease obstruction, rather than exhaustive in their character, and are intended to direct the workers in sanitary science as to the lines they should pursue, and are not in any way to be taken as complete. A paper is also included on the power of soil, air, and vegetation combined to purify sewage, the substance of which was read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.