Long life, and how to reach it / edited by George Black.

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[1888]
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    CHAPTER I. Introductory Considerations . . . .9-18 Healthy minds in healthy bodies invaluable, 10; Deaths, except from old age, generally unnecessary, 11; Innumerable precautions are needful, 13; Hygiene is the ounce of pre- vention, 14; Definitions of Life, Health, and Disease, 16; Results already attained by Sanitary science, 17. CHAPTER II. Causes of Disease, and How to Avoid them . 19-26 Temptation to forget warnings against danger universal, 20; Deficiency of light hinders development, 22; Electricity as a cause of disease, 23; Diseases are modified by Race, 23; Likewise by Temperament, Idiosyncrasy, and Age, 25; The Extinction of the Unfit, 26. CHAPTER III. Heat and Cold as Causes of Disease . . 27-33 Sunstroke, sunburn, etc., 27; How to avoid frost-bites, 29; Extreme cold quickly fatal; Story of Dr. Solander, 30; Con- gestion of internal organs produced by cold, 31; Danger of draughts of cold air, 32; Do not leave off warm clothing too early in the spring, 32; What to do when threatened with a cold, 33. CHAPTER IV. Contagion, and How to Escape it . . . 34-48 Contagious or catching diseases, 34; The Germ Theory of contagious maladies, 35 ; Every small-pox patient a hot bed for seeds of disease, 37; Contagious diseases do not spring up of their own accord, 38; Outbreak of imported