What is hygiene?
Hygiene can be defined as:
a science of the establishment and maintenance of health,
and
the practices of keeping yourself and your surroundings clean, especially in order to prevent illness or the spread of diseases.
The
word hygiene came to English from the
French hygiène which in turn came from the
New Latin hygieina and before that the
Greek hygieinḕ(téchnē) or
healthful (art). Ultimately though, at the end of the etymology trail, is
Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius (the god of medicine) and
goddess of cleanliness and sanitation. The Greek adjective was used by Aristotle as a noun meaning "health."
Since the arrival of the Industrial Revolution (c.1750-1850) and the discovery of the germ theory of disease in the second half of the nineteenth century, hygiene has been at the forefront of the struggle against illness and disease.
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