Modern Preventive Medicine Research Articles

Modern Concepts of Communicable Disease

The authors have attempted to illustrate the tendency toward integration and synthesis of modern preventive medicine, curative medicine, social medicine, and public health in the narrow but appropriate field of communicable disease. The approach is through a rapid historical summary of concepts: the rise and development of bacteriology and immunology, the accompanying science of sanitary engineering, the discovery of antibiotics and the results of this current emphasis on the last of the epidemiologic triad (host, environment, agent) to receive frontal attack. Changes in control measures to keep pace with newer knowledge are succinctly outlined. For example, with reference to the almost obsolete practice of placarding, the authors say “We have not observed the placard to do more than scare away delivery boys. The discarding of placards by the New York City Department of Health has not arrested the downward trend of communicable disease in the city.”

Mosquito Studies in the Panama Canal Zone During 1949 and 1950 (Diptera, Culicidae)

Mosquito control was a problem of major consideration during the construction of the Panama Canal and has since continued to receive much attention from personnel responsible for the maintenance and defense of the Canal. The accomplishments in malaria control in the Canal Zone would indeed constitute one of the brightest chapters in a history of modern preventive medicine. At this time there is no complete work on the mosquito fauna of this vital area. Howard, Dyar and Knab (1912-1917) and Dyar (1925 and 1928) include systematic treatments of the Culicidae known for the area at the time of these publications. Since then there has been published only occasional descriptions of new species and notes, except for The Anopheline Mosquitoes of The Caribbean Region by Komp (1942), Note,e on Distribution and Bionomics of Panama Mosquitoes by Arnett (1947-1950) and Studies on Forest Mosquitoes in Panama by Galindo et at., (1949, 1950 and 1951). This present paper includes a summary of the mosquitoes collected and identified by personnel of the 25th Preventive Medicine Survey Detachment while engaged in work on Army posts located in both the Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the Canal Zone during 1949 and 1950. Collections were made throughout the dry and wet seasons of both years. The dry season in the Canal Zone usually extends -from December to May and the wet season extends from May to December.

Microbes Militant: A Challenge to Man. The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine and Control of Infectious Diseases. A Revision of "The Microbe's Challenge.". Frederick Eberson

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksMicrobes Militant: A Challenge to Man. The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine and Control of Infectious Diseases. A Revision of "The Microbe's Challenge.". Frederick Eberson Walter C. TobieWalter C. Tobie Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 24, Number 2Jun., 1949 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/397024 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Occupational Skin Disease — A Preventable Disease and a Challenge to Modern Preventive Medicine

Occupational Skin Disease — A Preventable Disease and a Challenge to Modern Preventive Medicine

Story of Modern Preventive Medicine

Story of Modern Preventive Medicine

Story of Modern Preventive Medicine

Story of Modern Preventive Medicine

The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine

The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine M. P. Ravenel CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.19.4.455-b Published Online: August 29, 2011