单词 | hygiene |
释义 | hygienen. That department of knowledge or practice which relates to the maintenance of health; a system of principles or rules for preserving or promoting health; sanitary science. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [noun] > science or study of hygiene1799 hygiantics1815 hygiastics1815 Hygeia1841–4 hygienics1855 hygiology1855 hygeiolatry1882 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 1 b/1 Hygiena,..which instructeth how we shoulde continuallye preserve our presente health. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. i. 322* The Speculative part of Medicine is threefold: to wit, in Physiologia, Hygieine, and Pathologia. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Analepticks A part of Hygieina, or the Art of preserving Health. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hygieina, that Branch of Medicine which considers Health.] 1799 R. Southey Lett. from Spain (ed. 2) 470 The second [Professorship] shall be of Physiology and Higiene. [Note] I do not understand this word; perhaps it means the doctrine of health. 1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) Hygiene, modern physicians have applied this term to that division of therapia which treats of the diet of the sick. 1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 132 Extending only to matters of what our [French] neighbours call ‘hygiene, salubrity, and morality’. 1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene Introd. p. xv Hygiene is the art of preserving health. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece ix. 274 Greek medicine rather started from hygiene than from pathology. 1898 Times 25 Aug. 5/6 The improved hygiene of dwellings and workshops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1799 |
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