1 52 SCIENCE REMAKING THE WORLD 



In the fourth place, the guardian of the world's health 

 would not rest content with the negative control of 

 disease. He would regard sanitation and epidemiology 

 as only the first steps toward a positive campaign to be 

 carried out through control of the diet, housing, exer- 

 cise, and recreation of the world's population. This 

 benevolent autocrat would see to it that children'were 

 well born and nourished and from their earliest days 

 trained to hygienic habits. In this way he would, 

 through the perfect obedience of millions to the dic- 

 tation of wisdom and benevolence, produce a vigorous 

 and healthy race. 



Of course, as fundamental to this entire programme 

 the commanding officer would establish medical schools 

 and training centres in which the officers and privates 

 of his army of hygiene would be recruited and trained 

 for their important tasks. Under his guidance medical 

 schools would transfer their chief interest from the cure 

 to the prevention of diseases. The stress would be 

 laid upon early diagnosis and upon preventive treat- 

 ment, upon frequent medical examinations, upon sound 

 habits of living, upon the importance of mental serenity 

 and a stimulating social life. From such schools of 

 medicine and hygiene would go out men and women 

 apostles of the doctrine of prevention determined to 

 keep people well and regarding the occurrence of 

 disease among those under their charge as a serious 

 reflection upon the vigilance and resourcefulness of the 

 members of the profession. 



The description of an arbitrary control of this kind 

 is in itself sufficient to show how impossible and in- 



