Article1 August 1950GLOBAL STRATEGY IN PREVENTIVE MEDICINEK. F. MEYER, M.D.K. F. MEYER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-33-2-275 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe great honor in the invitation of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians to serve as the James D. Bruce Memorial Lecturer in Preventive Medicine is traditionally interpreted as an opportunity to present to this convocation an appraisal of newer practices in a field of medicine which had its origin in the ancient world. Long before the days of Hippocrates, man sought to stem the tides of the diseases that threatened him, but over all these early efforts in the practice of preventive medicine broods the darkness of man's ignorance and helplessness. The Grecian sculptor, Sosius,...Bibliography1. Ryle JA: Social medicine: its meaning and its scope, Brit. M. J. 2: 633-636, 1943. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Newman G: An outline of the practice of preventive medicine, 1926, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. Google Scholar3. Sigerist HE: The people's misery: mother of disease, address delivered in 1790 by Johann Peter Frank. Introduction. Bull. Hist. Med. 9: 81-87, 1941. Google Scholar4. Shrewsbury JF: The plague of Athens, Bull. Hist. Med. 24: 1-25, 1950. Google Scholar5. Burnet FM: Virus as organism. Evolutionary and ecological aspects of some human virus diseases, 1945, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Google Scholar6. Van Beneden PJ: Animal parasites and messmates, 1876, D. Appleton & Co., New York. Google Scholar7. Andrewes CH: Adventures among viruses. II. Epidemic influenza, New England J. Med. 242: 197-203, 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar8. Soper FL: Personal communication, 1948. Google Scholar9. Sharif M: Quoted in: Active measures against plague, Chron. World Health Organ. 3: 269-274, 1949. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: San Francisco, California*Presented at the Thirty-First Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Boston, Mass., April 17, 1950. Nextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byWanted: The Practice of Preventive Medicine 1 August 1950Volume 33, Issue 2Page: 275-291KeywordsPreventive medicine Issue Published: 1 August 1950 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright, 1950, by The American College of PhysiciansPDF downloadLoading ...