Practical Preventive Medicine
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The author has set out to provide the minimum information of preventive medicine which a practitioner of medicine should have: accordingly this book reads in many places like a series of notes for a course of lectures. The word " Practical " in the title is misleading; the most practical items in the book are the photographs which show various up-to-date methods of disease prevention, and with which the text is copiously illustrated. Just as the author imagines that the ancients applied to the prevention of disease none but superstitious principles (he admits the Mosaic code to be rational when interpreted by the light of present-day knowledge), so the modern
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A managed care stakeholder assessment of preventive medicine: practical applications, measurable results, evaluating success.
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