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Title: An elementary physiology and hygiene for use in upper grammar grades
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Conn, Herbert William, 1859- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Physiology
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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GY AND HYGIENE will ignorantly come into contact with germs thatthey could easily avoid. Nothing is more important for health than to know thecauses of the various preventablediseases and how to avoid them.The Lesson taught by theJapanese.—The whole world wasgiven a lesson in the preventionof disease by the Japanese armyduring the recent war betweenJapan and Russia. In all pre-vious modern wars more soldiershave died of diseases than havebeen killed by bullets. But theJapanese had learned what thescientist had to teach about themethods of preventing the par-ticular diseases likely to appearin the army. They thereforesent their doctors and scientistsahead of the army, to find outthe healthy and unhealthy placesfor camps, to learn whether thewater of the streams and wellswas fit to drink, and to discoverany other things that mightmake the soldiers sick whenthey came to camp. Thesoldiers were told how important it was for them toobey the directions of these advance guards, since it was
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Fig. 81. —ComparativeDiagram.The larger figure representsthe number of Japanesesoldiers killed by bullets,as compared with thesmaller figure, the numberkilled by disease in thewar with Russia. PREVENTABLE DISEASES 255 just as much a matter of patriotism for them to keepwell as it was to be brave in battle. The Japanesesoldiers obeyed as no other body of men ever obeyedsuch directions, and this gave the world a chance tosee what could be done if men generally would followthe advice given by the physician and the scientist.The result was most remarkable. In our own armiesonly four years before, during the war with Spain, forevery one person killed by bullets four died of disease.In the Japanese army only one died of disease for everyfour that were killed by the enemy. Preventable dis-eases almost disappeared. What the Japanese armydid other people can do, just as soon as they will listento the scientific explanations of the distribution of dis-ease, and are willing to follow direction

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