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Preventable Diseases By: Woods Hutchinson (1862-1930) |
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BY WOODS HUTCHINSON, A.M., M.D.
Author of "Studies in Human and Comparative Pathology," "Instinct and
Health," etc., etc. Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York Polyclinic,
late Lecturer in Comparative Pathology, London Medical Graduates College
and University of Buffalo
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press
Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1907, 1908 AND 1909, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY WOODS HUTCHINSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published November 1909 FIFTH IMPRESSION
By Woods Hutchinson THE CONQUEST OF CONSUMPTION. Illustrated.
12mo, $1.00 net . Postage extra. PREVENTABLE DISEASES. 12mo, $1.50 net .
Postage 13 cents. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
CONTENTS
I. The Body Republic and its Defense 1 II. Our Legacy of Health: the Power of Heredity
in the Prevention of Disease 31 III. The Physiognomy of Disease: what a Doctor
can tell from Appearances 55 IV. Colds and how to catch Them 83 V. Adenoids, or Mouth Breathing: their Cause
and their Consequences 103 VI. Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. I 123 VII. Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. II 140 VIII. The Unchecked Great Scourge: Pneumonia 174 IX. The Natural History of Typhoid Fever 198 X. Diphtheria: the Modern Moloch 222 XI. The Herods of Our Day: Scarlet Fever,
Measles, and Whooping Cough 243 XII. Appendicitis, or Nature's Remnant Sale 267 XIII. Malaria: the Pestilence that walketh in Darkness;
the greatest Foe of the Pioneer 289 XIV. Rheumatism: what it Is, and particularly
what it Isn't 311 XV. Germ Foes that follow the Knife, or Death
under the Finger Nail 331 XVI. Cancer, or Treason in the Body State 350 XVII. Headache: the most useful Pain in the World 367 XVIII. Nerves and Nervousness 387 XIX. Mental Influence in Disease, or how the Mind
affects the Body 411 Index 439
PREVENTABLE DISEASES
CHAPTER I THE BODY REPUBLIC AND ITS DEFENSE
The human body as a mechanism is far from perfect. It can be beaten or
surpassed at almost every point by some product of the machine shop or
some animal. It does almost nothing perfectly or with absolute
precision. As Huxley most unexpectedly remarked a score of years ago,
"If a manufacturer of optical instruments were to hand us for laboratory
use an instrument so full of defects and imperfections as the human eye,
we should promptly decline to accept it and return it to him. But," as
he went on to say, "while the eye is inaccurate as a microscope,
imperfect as a telescope, crude as a photographic camera, it is all of
these in one." In other words, like the body, while it does nothing
accurately and perfectly, it does a dozen different things well enough
for practical purposes. It has the crowning merit, which overbalances
all these minor defects, of being able to adapt itself to almost every
conceivable change of circumstances. This is the keynote of the surviving power of the human species. It is
not enough that the body should be prepared to do good work under
ordinary conditions, but it must be capable, if needs be, of meeting
extraordinary ones... Continue reading book >>
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