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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.

London: Cassell & Co., 1890.

Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the regulation of unadulterated food and drugs" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state, and the ethics of political medical practice [2007]).  

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Entry Number#1650
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/2163
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLenglish-sanitary-institutions-reviewed-in-their-course-of-development-and-in-some-of-their-political-and-social-relations

Geographic Context

Publication place: London