Abstract
The desire of man for life, a necessary condition of existence in a healthy animal, has led him to search out by experiment the secret workings of his own body, with a view to acquiring by more perfect knowledge a measure of control over his own functions, comparable to that which he has already obtained over the forces of inanimate nature. In this way has been founded the science of medicine, the pursuit of which is the main object of the members of this society. Among the methods devised to this end, viz., the control of the functions of the body, must be classed the whole treatment of man from his youth upward; and a large part of the efforts of the medical man must coincide with those of the educationalist and the sanitarian in the endeavor to assure health by measures which affect, in the first place, the environment
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