CASE 



OF THTC 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 



Received.- 

 A ccessions No&&&j0.y_ Shelf No.-. 



THE increasing attention given of late years to personal 

 and public hygiene is one of the most encouraging signs 

 of social improvement. Books, periodicals, tracts, and lec- 

 tures, have disseminated information on the subject of great 

 value ; but it is notorious that most of the cheap and popu- 

 lar kind are crude compilations of incompetent persons. 



Several eminent medical and scientific men of London 

 accordingly combined to prepare a series of HEALTH PRIM- 

 ERS, of a character to entitle them to the fullest public 

 confidence. They are to be brief, simple, elementary in 

 statement, and filled with substantial information, suitable 

 for the guidance of grown-up people. Each primer is to 

 be the work of a specially competent writer ; while the 

 choice of topics and the critical supervision will be in the 

 hands of an able and responsible committee. The series 

 will deal with the chief hygienic subjects of vital impor- 



