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difficulties increase when we attempt to trace the successive steps in
the corporeal pathway of molecule and atom. Yet these secrets of the
vital process are also gradually being revealed. When we remember that
it is in this very field of nutrition that there exist great popular
ignorance and a special proneness to fad and prejudice, we realize how
practically helpful are such exact studies of metabolism."(13)
(13) Frederick S. Lee, Ph.D.: Scientific Features of Modern
Medicine, New York, 1911. I would like to call attention to this
work of Professor Lee's as presenting all the scientific features
of modern medicine in a way admirably adapted for anyone, lay or
medical, who wishes to get a clear sketch of them.
CHAPTER VI -- THE RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
THE story so far has been of men and of movements--of men who have,
consciously or unconsciously, initiated great movements, and of
movements by which, nolens volens, the men of the time were moulded and
controlled. Hippocrates, in the tractate on "Ancient Medicine," has a
splendid paragraph on the attitude of mind towards the men of the past.
My attention was called to it one day in the Roman Forum by Commendatore
Boni, who quoted it as one of the great sayings of antiquity.
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