PREVENTABLE DISEASES
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
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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