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EDITOR'S PREFACE
that physiology and hygiene are taught in so many schools, and
active health and first-aid propaganda is being carried out by a great
of public organizations, some interest in Medicine is pretty widely
In those who have had some education in the laws of health a
as to the processes of disease is but natural, and it is well that
free from sensationalism and informed by sound medical knowledge
should be published to meet the need that thus arises.
Such works fulfil a useful purpose also because they enable the reader
avoid certain illnesses by revealing the causes of them. Moreover,
tend to interest him in those preventive meASures which the health
of the Iand are busily engaged in carrying out. If these
are to reach the highest level of etfectiveness they must have
enlightened sympathy and co-operation of the public. It is all to the
therefore, that people generally should be eneouraged to take an
interest in all that pertains to their health.
The present work aims, inter alia, at imparting an intelligent conception
the common diseases to which we are liable-the causes to which
are due, the symptoms by which they may manifest themselves,
the treatment they require. There are emergencies, such as accidents
cases of poisoning, in which first aid has to be given. Such emer-
gencies are provided for in these pages, and since the arrangement is
alphabetical, the reader will find it to be a book of ready reference, as
by its title it claims to be. There are also many simple ailments which
every mother feels she ought to be able to treat. How to recognize such
ailments and how to treat them are here described. Even in the more
serious diseases it is well that the mother and other members of the
household who may undertake nursing duties should not only have
instruetion in nursing, but should be able to appreciate the signiñicance
of symptoms as they arise, the course the illness may be expected to
run, and the reasons for the treatment that is administered. All such
information as this is given in these pages. At the same time the neces-
sity for promptly summoning medical aid in all but trivial complaints
EDITOR'S PREFACE
that physiology and hygiene are taught in so many schools, and
active health and first-aid propaganda is being carried out by a great
of public organizations, some interest in Medicine is pretty widely
In those who have had some education in the laws of health a
as to the processes of disease is but natural, and it is well that
free from sensationalism and informed by sound medical knowledge
should be published to meet the need that thus arises.
Such works fulfil a useful purpose also because they enable the reader
avoid certain illnesses by revealing the causes of them. Moreover,
tend to interest him in those preventive meASures which the health
of the Iand are busily engaged in carrying out. If these
are to reach the highest level of etfectiveness they must have
enlightened sympathy and co-operation of the public. It is all to the
therefore, that people generally should be eneouraged to take an
interest in all that pertains to their health.
The present work aims, inter alia, at imparting an intelligent conception
the common diseases to which we are liable-the causes to which
are due, the symptoms by which they may manifest themselves,
the treatment they require. There are emergencies, such as accidents
cases of poisoning, in which first aid has to be given. Such emer-
gencies are provided for in these pages, and since the arrangement is
alphabetical, the reader will find it to be a book of ready reference, as
by its title it claims to be. There are also many simple ailments which
every mother feels she ought to be able to treat. How to recognize such
ailments and how to treat them are here described. Even in the more
serious diseases it is well that the mother and other members of the
household who may undertake nursing duties should not only have
instruetion in nursing, but should be able to appreciate the signiñicance
of symptoms as they arise, the course the illness may be expected to
run, and the reasons for the treatment that is administered. All such
information as this is given in these pages. At the same time the neces-
sity for promptly summoning medical aid in all but trivial complaints