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Hygeia, a City of Health

Benjamin Ward Richardson

出版	Standard Publications, Incorporated, 2009
主題	History / GeneralHistory / World
ISBN	14385144849781438514482
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iV6GPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Benjamin Richardson was a British physician, anaestheologist, physiologist, and sanitarian. He was a medical historian and credited with many advances in anesthetics. In 1893 he was knighted. Hygeia; A City of Health was written in 1876. This address was delivered to the Health Department of the Social Science Congress. Richardson asks the congress to study the causes and conditions that increase disease, how they can be lessened and how to inform the uninformed. Richardson believed that poverty meant poor health, which in turn meant poor mental ability. The title Hygeia comes from Greek mythology. Hygeia was the goddess of health cleanliness, and sanitation. She was associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health.