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  • [163] In Germany, where the cure of infected prostitutes under regulation is nearly everywhere compulsory, usually at the cost of the community, it is found that 18 is the average age at which they are affected by syphilis; the average age of prostitutes in brothels is higher than that of those outside, and a much larger proportion have therefore become immune to disease (Blaschko, "Hygiene der Syphilis," in Weyl's _Handbuch der Hygiene_, Bd. ii, p. 62, 1900).

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Professor in Hygiene and Forensic Medicine at Utrecht.

    Christiaan Eijkman - Biography 1965

  • In "Hygiene," a retired military man going on his regimental dinner trip without his wife-and looking forward to his yearly meeting with a prostitute he knows as Babs-glances at the flask of coffee and candy his wife packed for him and wonders, "Were you as young as you felt, or as old as you looked?"

    Not About Old Age, Exactly, But How Aging Is Experienced 2004

  • M.D., of Oswego, was made superintendent of "Hygiene," also a new department.

    Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York Georgeanna M. Gardenier

  • I'm going to ask to take 'Hygiene' next term, because Gertie

    A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

  • But his faith in "Hygiene" had risen to such fervour that he dreaded the delay of postal delivery.

    The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880

  • Dr. Buck, in his "Hygiene," tells us that one hundred thousand persons die every year through preventable diseases, that one hundred and fifty thousand are constantly sick through preventable diseases, and that the loss to the nation, through the illness of working-people by diseases that might have been prevented, is more than a hundred million dollars a year.

    What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874

  • In Cameron's "Hygiene" is this sentence: "In candor, it must be admitted that many eminent physicians deny the efficacy of alcohol in the treatment of any kind of disease, _and some assert that it is worse than useless_."

    Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink 1847

  • "Hygiene," no one comes to help when a mysterious plague overtakes a village.

    Bookslut 2010

  • Get the right people on the bus … FAST Re-calibrate performance evaluation processes to reflect the skills you need … Define New Skills as the Align People processes Skills that worked in the Interviewing Guide business changes … to drive behavior past are now "Hygiene" 

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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