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Definition of Preventive medicine
1. Noun. The branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease. "The medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preventive Medicine
Literary usage of Preventive medicine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"preventive medicine. Generally the term "preventive medicine" has been regarded
as almost synonymous with public hygiene, and its application has been ..."
2. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1922)
"preventive medicine AND HYGIENE WILFRED H. KELLOGG, Ph.G., MD, ... WILLIAM C.
HASSLES, Ph.G., MD, Lecturer in preventive medicine and Hygiene. ..."
3. The Evolution of Modern Medicine: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale by William Osler (1921)
"... CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF preventive medicine THE story so far has been of men
and of movements—of men who have, consciously or unconsciously, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Generally the term "preventive medicine" has been regarded as almost synonymous
with public hygiene and its application has been confined to the operations ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... of a nature to be hereafter determined, in connection with the British Institute
of preventive medicine, to be distinguished by Jenner's name. ..."
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