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Prophylaxis

noun
1.
The prevention of disease.





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"Prophylaxis" Quotes from Famous Books



... measures and prophylactic legislation as the sole and certain salvation of mankind from zymotic disease; and I have heard them denounce both as malignant spreaders of cancer and lunacy. But the one objection I have never heard from a doctor is the objection that prophylaxis by the inoculatory methods most in vogue is an economic impossibility under our private practice system. They buy some stuff from somebody for a shilling, and inject a pennyworth of it under their patient's skin for half-a-crown, ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw


Words linked to "Prophylaxis" :   bar, prevention, prophylactic


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