B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Knowledge is Safety (1919)
“ The old maxim, that "Knowledge is power," is a true one, but there is still a greater truth: "KNOWLEDGE IS SAFETY." Safety amid physical ills that beset mankind, and safety amid the moral pitfalls that surround so many young people, is the great crying demand of the age. ”
B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Knowledge is Safety (1919)
“ PROGRESSION.—A large, respectable, though diminishing class in every community, maintain that nothing that relates exclusively to either sex should become the subject of popular medical instruction. But such an opinion is radically wrong; ignorance is no more the mother of purity than it is of religion. Enlightenment can never work injustice to him who investigates. ”
B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Knowledge is Safety (1919)
“ LOCK AND KEY.—Any information bearing upon the diseases of mankind should not be kept under lock and key. The physician is frequently called upon to speak in plain language to his patients upon some private and startling disease contracted on account of ignorance. The better plan, however, is to so educate and enlighten old and young upon the important subjects of health, so that the necessity to call a physician may occur less frequently. ”
