Maryland medical journal . lful diagnostician and medicalpractitioner with his equipment for action. Placed in the field,the nurse has found the people who need medical care, and whoare not known to the physicians. Touching the hem of the nursesgarment will not make them whole. So nurses have conductedcampaigns to secure appropriations or raise funds to secure thefree remedial treatment needed. * * * Public health workseeks to make a short cut to health, and the cut is named preven-tion. Prevention is accomplished only by attaching the conditionrarly. If there is delay, it is too late to preve
Maryland medical journal . lful diagnostician and medicalpractitioner with his equipment for action. Placed in the field,the nurse has found the people who need medical care, and whoare not known to the physicians. Touching the hem of the nursesgarment will not make them whole. So nurses have conductedcampaigns to secure appropriations or raise funds to secure thefree remedial treatment needed. * * * Public health workseeks to make a short cut to health, and the cut is named preven-tion. Prevention is accomplished only by attaching the conditionrarly. If there is delay, it is too late to prevent. Then we musthave the cure. When smallpox is encountered, vaccine is calledfor immediately; for diphtheria, the antitoxin goes with thephysician. When a public health nurse goes forth to find whatpeople are ill and why they are ill and to promote health, theskilled physician and his base of action must be within may not he able 1o take the physician to the patients, but she APRIL, 191/ MARYLAND MEDICAL JOURNAL. Select Location PHILLIPS HOUSE Open All the Year SpeciallyPreparedDiets forConvalescents
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