Sacramento Daily Record Union

Preventive Medicine -Dr. C. R. Illingworth thus writes in the Medical Press:
One of our great aims as physicians is to prevent disease; another is to cut short its course when developed. Our power in these directions finds full scope among that class of disorders now generally recognized as depending upon the reception, growth and development in the tissues of micro-organic life in one shape or another. By the continual suppression of the growth and development of these forms of cell life, we may, indeed, hope at length to erase the names of the diseases they cause from the category of those "ills that flesh is heir to." The diseases I refer to are scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping-cough, rheumatic fever, chicken-pox, small-pox, syphilis, hydrophobia, yellow fever, et hoc genus omne.