Excerpt from The Public Health Nurse, Vol. 10: October, 1918 To this the father replied: But, my son, these men that you mention are like menders of torn clothes; for. So, when people are sick, physicians cure them; but your care of health is to be of a nobler kind than this; for you ought to make it your study that the army may never be diseased at all. 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.