Sanitary examinations of water, air, and food : a vade-mecum for the medical officer of health / by Cornelius B. Fox.

  • Fox, Cornelius B. (Cornelius Benjamin), 1839-1922.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Sanitary examinations of water, air, and food : a vade-mecum for the medical officer of health / by Cornelius B. Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    The demand for a third edition of my brochure on Water Analysis, affords me an opportunity of offering to the public the results of an increased and more extended experience. The additions are so great as to compel me to re-write nearly all that I have pre^dously published on the subject. The many kind appreciative comments that have been made on it by the scientific world, and especially by that section of it that is engaged in the public health service of the country, coupled with the suggestions of friends, have led me to incorporate with my essay on Water Analysis sections on Examinations of Air and Food. I trust that none of my readers will imagine that I have the presumption to place myself forward as a teacher of the Medical Officers of Health of the country. I wish rather to offer suggestions and hints, tliat, I am sure, will be helpful to those who have not plodded as I have, along long, tedious, and tortuous paths for many years, at the sacrifice of much time and labour, because I could not find a short cut. It does not follow that because there is no royal road to learning, that the road which we