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DEC 26 1923

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The Canada Lancet

VOL. LXII

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National Hygiene

Incorporating The Dominion Medical Monthly
THE CANADA LANCET VOL. LVIII., NO. V

TORONTO, JANUARY, 1924

Editorial

Compulsory Health

No. 1

The editor of a recent number of Scribner's says that for ages it was man's right and privilege-his most distinguishing attribute to enjoy ill-health. He might do the things he ought not to do and not do the things he ought to do: feast till he ached, in some part of his anatomy, drink till he saw serpents, enjoy the luxury of idle muscles, shut his windows against the chilly night air, sleep in feather beds, go without baths, neglect his teeth, and allow his arteries to harden, if he chose. When plague was abroad he might be social and contract the disease and suffer the experience of its symptoms. Now he is set upon by sundry non-humans, myopic and with mental twists for being different, who are trying to do away with the good old days and ways; who censor our steps, prevent us from enjoying life as we please and from working out our

own evolution. It began with restraining us from

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