TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe relationship of the medical profession to preventive medicine
AU  - BRACKEN HM
Y1  - 1909/11/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.92550200001001i
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1631
EP  - 1632
VL  - LIII
IS  - 20
N2  - To discuss preventive medicine without giving medical men a leading place would be a strange proposition, and yet there is danger of the medical profession losing its leadership in this great work. Should that day ever come it would be one of the greatest misfortunes conceivable. Medical men are able to weigh the pros and cons in dealing with the problems involved in the prevention of disease. A disease may be recognized as transmissible, yet physicians will not know how to prevent its transmission from person to person until its cause is known. After this the method of prevention is easily determined upon.Dr. J. S. Fulton, in his address as president of the Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health in 1905, said:The people have thrust on us the most tremendous task ever proposed in the history of preventive medicine, the extinction
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.92550200001001i
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550200001001i
ER  -