Public hygiene in America : being the Centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 / by Henry I. Bowditch ... / together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering.

  • Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892.
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1877
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Credit: Public hygiene in America : being the Centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 / by Henry I. Bowditch ... / together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    twenty years afterwards, viz. in 1870, Dr. Derby, as Secretary of the State Board of Health of Massachu- setts, looked to the book as his inspiration and support. In that year, Dr. Derby brought out the first essay ever published in any one of these United States, under the direction of a permanent body appointed by State Ultimate authority for the purpose of investigating tnumph. £jie causes 0f disease, and for warning the people in relation thereto. The paper was really the outgrowth of seed planted by a layman twenty years before. And, in saying this, I do not wish to ignore or to undervalue the many and persistent efforts of indi- viduals, and occasionally of the Massachusetts Medical Society, to persuade the State, in its legislative capacity, to sustain the ideas avowed by Mr. Shattuck; but there is no doubt that he, as a layman, did more towards bringing Massachusetts to its present status than all the efforts made by the Massachusetts Medical Society in its corporate capacity, or by members, great as this labor was on the part of one or two of our more zealous associates, prominent among whom appears Dr. Edward Jarvis, of Dorchester. The second layman I have named is Edwin Chad- „, . „, , wick. All of you know him well as one who, Edwin Chad- J wick, ofLon- more fortunate than Shattuck, has been able to live and to work for many years, and to see rich fruits everywhere springing up in Great Britain and in other countries, under the power of his writings and of his labors. But there are other influences which have tended to the evolution of the third period. Europe has in- fluenced us as much, if not more than at France. either of the other epochs. France long since entered upon a career of studies and of publi-