Even those who acknowledge that hygiene should be taught at all schools, are. tending slightly to throw off the doctors' yoke, even in this eminently medical subject:
from a little subconscious perhaps because a paid medical lecturer is expensive. It is forgotten that hygiene and allied subjects taught to the laity (such as Home Nursing and First Aid) are progressive and require al: knowledge of several sciences. One rd of young girls of twenty]: hygiene their only knowledge of the subject being what they may have learnt from an elementary text book in the top close of the school some three years pre viously. No wonder that one hears male lecturers on first aid, when not doctors, teaching obsolete methods of restoring the apparently drowned, or a treatment of burns which absolutely ignores the recent discovery of the almost stantaneous relief from pain afforded by the application of solutions of picric acid. It is absurd, of course, to expect the teacher, any more than the doctor, or the engineer to be a specialist all round.
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