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Identifier: industrialmedici1919mock (find matches)
Title: Industrial medicine and surgery
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Mock, Harry E. (Harry Edgar), 1880-
Subjects: Occupational diseases Working class Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : W. B. Saunders Company
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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t they are light, airy and clean at all times(Fig. 18). Often a prescription providing for certain hours spent in the gymwill do far more toward overcoming some threatened disease or break-down in an employee than a prescription for iron, quinine and strych-nia. In fact the more of these healthful adjuncts the physician canadd to his armamentarium the less drugs will he dispense. 3. The Playgrounds and Athletic Fields.—Our colleges were thefirst to recognize an athletic field as a definite and essential part ofthe educational plant. To-day many industries have adopted the ideaand have provided ball grounds, tennis courts, cinder tracks, and allthe appliances that make up a regular athletic field (Fig. 19).x Teams are organized in various departments and compete withone another. Much friendly rivalry is developed. The silver cupswon by department teams in tennis, the baseball pennants won, and1 Figs. 17 to 19 by courtesy of Sears, Roebuck & Co. 106 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY
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RECREATION AND EXERCISE OF EMPLOYEES 107 the individual medals and prizes stimulate these athletic contestsand make them very popular with the employees. These provisions for outdoor athletics are of great aid to the med-ical department. Many a hollow chested, shallow breathing, stoopshouldered employee who is frequently absent on account of minorailments can be broadened out into a well man by persuading him touse the athletic field. Many of these boys began work very youngand never had the advantages of athletic training at school or college.They enter into the sport with all the enthusiasm of a freshman. Besides invigorated bodies, their minds are benefited. For thefirst time the spirit of perseverance and conquest is instilled into them.The joy of winning on the athletic field is an incentive to striveto win in lifes competition. These athletic contests should receivethe most enthusiastic backing from the medical department of theindustry. The doctors responsibility for the men en

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