Transactions of the Section on Preventive Medicine and Pu...
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Excerpt from Transactions of the Section on Preventive Medicine and Public HealthThe colonial period brought forth an attempt on the part of the various ports and cities to exclude and eradicate pestilential disease. This was a local, nu organized, and non-uniform movement, too often in¿uenced by commercial motives and civic pride, but the seed of preventive medicine thus sown took root, and one of the first bills introduced into the First Con...
