Commonwealth Medicine

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“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)