Preventive Medicine
But all this does not detract from the value of health examinations. The time is coming when a majority of people will have these examinations, perhaps once yearly, realizing that these are among the greatest health insurances possible to have. The day of “preventive medicine” is ar¬riving. To the super-scientific physician this means so called prophylactic serums and vaccine?. To the physical culturist and clearer thinking medical physician it means living in such a way as to maintain vitality and avoid disease-producing and undue aging habits and manners of living.
The aim of preventive medicine is to diminish the chances for premature death, preceded by conditions that disable or that make life a burden. Nothing is gained by dragging out a miserable existence for five or ten years beyond the allotted “three score years and ten.” By proper living, planned with intelligence and aided by the findings of yearly examina¬tions, one retains youthfulness of mind and body and advances into old age mentally and physically fit.