On the Progress of Preventive Medicine during the Victorian Era. Inaugural Address of Session 1887-88
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this address, but I shall venture to lay before you some account of that progress, in so far as it has been identified with the development of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology in this kingdom; feeling sure of your interest in an endeavour to place on record, in this Jubilee year, some account of a movement which, whilst it has effected a saving of life, and a prevention of disease on a scale the magnitude of which it would be difficult to define, has done so much to
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