Infection and Immunity, by Victor C. Vaughan, M.D. (HC, 1915, $18, which is 1/3 the internet price.)
"This monograph is a part of the Commemoration Volume, issued by the American Medical Association at its meeting in San Francisco, June 22 to 26, 1915, as a tribute to the medical sciences, which made possible the building of the Panama Canal and the Panama Pacific Exposition."
"No nation can be great so long as disease prevails widely among any classes. Modern medicine has become largely a social service. Preventive medicine is the keystone of the triumphal arch of modern civilization. Displace it and the whole structure will fall. Widespread epidemics lead to national decay..."
"The medical profession feels that it has a patriotic duty to perform in the advancement of the best of the people..."
Disease prevention as a patriotic duty? These days we think of it more as a duty to help the whole world. Also interesting, the linkage of medicine and the Panama Canal, which is understandable, but the linkage to the Panama Pacific Exposition?
Look for this book in the medical section, avail. 12/14.
