Outlines of practical hygiene.

  • Currier, C. Gilman (Charles Gilman)
Date:
1898
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Credit: Outlines of practical hygiene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE The preparation of this book was undertaken at the instance of busy practitioners and students who emphasized the lack of a compendious work upon practical hygiene embodying the most modern truths and which, at the same time, was adapted especially to American conditions. While the subject-matter has been shaped in conformity to these requirements, the most recent work of foreign inves- tigators and practical men has been fully considered, and their results have been incorporated in the following pages wherever suitable. Besides having at his command all modern treatises of importance that bear any relation to the subjects touched upon, the author has zealously and regularly consulted the current periodical literature that has appeared up to the date of publication of this book. Some of the monographs used have been indicated in the text. In view of the existence of the Index published by the Board of Managers of the Association of Engineering Societies, and also of the Index Medicus and of other accessi- ble catalogues of new and old literature, it seems out of place to attempt in a single, small book of this character to give a bibliography. The best books of this kind rarely attempt it. Those which essay it produce only unsatis- factory and necessarily incomplete results. Even a par-