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FOREWORD
To be morbidly interested in one's body is a discase in itself. All
too many people find an interest in discase, their own or someone
clse's, far greater than any interest they may show in the main-
tenance of good health. Indeed, their interest in good health may
begin only when it has gone. At the other extreme there are those
with but the sketchiest idea of what is going on inside them. They
regard all diseases as a matter of chance, despite the fact that a
little knowledge would hcip themn to avoid some of them.
Between these two extremes there are many who, taking an
intelligent interest in health and disease, find themselves mystified
by a complicated terminology and defeated by the jargon of con-
temporary medicine. It is to those who would find uscful some
simple definitions and descriptions of conditions of health and
disease that this Dictionary is addressed. It is not intended to
encourage either self-medication or morbid introspection, but
rather it is an endeavour to describe the commoner discases in
simple language.
In its preparation I have been greatly helped by my formner
colleague, Dr Stephen Hadfield.
CHARLES Hn