DOMESTIC HYGIENE AND SANITARY INFORMATION, INCLUDING ARTICLES ON THE HUMAN BODY, DIGESTION AND NUTRITION, THE CAUSES OF DIS- BY GEORGE WILSON, M.A., M.D., " AUTHOR OF HANDBOOK OF HYGIENE AND SANITARY SCIENCE,' EDITED WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS BY J. G. RICHARDSON, M.D., PROFESSOR OF HYGIENE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA: P. BLAKISTON, SON & CO., No. 1012 Walnut Street. KD 263 HARVARD COLLEGE NEW GIFT OF LEDYARD VORTHINGTO! SARGENT "Hygiene is the art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and of mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote."-PARKES. "Only in a strong and clean body can the soul do its message fitly."-FULLer. "Who would not give a trifle to prevent What he would give a thousand worlds to cure?" YOUNG. "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformnity, except where both may be had."-LORD BACON. EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE admirable manner in which Prof. Wilson has performed his task leaves little to be done by an American editor, save the addition of a few notes respecting matters wherein variations of climate, habits of life, social surroundings, and, above all, sanitary regulations in the United States, slightly modify sundry solutions to the hygienic problems so ably discussed. His hope that the volume will be specially welcomed by parents and teachers, is amply justified by its thorough adaptation to the wants of the school room, and its exact fitness for meeting the requirements of instructors, who desire to take part in the prevailing new and excellent movement for teaching hygiene and physiology in both public and private schools. Since all human happiness depends so absolutely upon obedience to the laws of Hygiene, no more useful study than that of sanitary science can form part of the curriculum of any institution of learning, and Dr. Wilson's clear, definite, and everywhere reliable statements, render this work singularly valuable, as a Text-book of Hygiene for schools. PHILADELPHIA, April, 1885. J. G. R. iii |