Excerpt from The Public Health Committee of the New York Academy of Medicine: A Survey of Its Activities During Five Years of Work, 1911-1916 The Code of Medical Ethics, adopted in 1847 by the American Medical Association, recognizes physicians as conservators of pub lic health and declares that it is a delicate and noble task, by the judicious application of Public Hygiene to prevent disease and lengthen life, and thus to increase the productive industry, and without assuming the office of moral and religious teaching, to aid the civilization of an entire pe0p1e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.