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UNDER the title of “Preventive Medicine” Dr. Carpenter has reprinted lectures which he gave, during the summer session of 1876, at St. Thomas's Hospital. They were addressed to students, and the form in which they were first given has been preserved. At a time when, in the words of the Prince of Wales's letter to the Society of Arts, “the supply of pure water to the population is exciting deep interest throughout the country,” the volume will be found a convenient and ready résumé for those who wish to inform themselves on the more important questions that enter into the consideration of what is a good water supply, and what is to be done with fouled water. As is well known, Dr. Carpenter advocates sewage-farms as the proper way to dispose of sewage, and the chapters. devoted to this subject enter into financial as well as scientific consideration. In speaking of the spread of epidemic diseases by water and by air Dr. Carpenter explains the germ theory, but we cannot find that he even alludes to any other possible explanation. It appears as if he regards the germ theory of disease as really proved. Is it ?
Preventive Medicine in Relation to the Public Health.
By A. Carpenter, Camb. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)
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Preventive Medicine in Relation to the Public Health . Nature 18, 248 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018248b0
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