HEALTH, 



HO^A^ TO PROMOTE IT. 



By RICHARD McSHERRY, M. D., 



Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine, University of Maryland ; Member of 

 American Medical Association; President of Ealtimore Academy of Medicine. 



Extract from Preface. 



" Hygiene, public and private, has become, of late years, one of the 

 most important elements of modern civilization. It is a subject in which 

 all mankind has an interest, even if it be, as it too often is, an uncon- 

 scious interest. 



" The present worlc is addressed to the general reader, no matter 

 what his pursuit, and the language is such as any physician may use in 

 conversation with an intelligent patient ; it is therefore as free as such a 

 work can be made from scientific technicalities. 



" It is offered as a contribution to a great cause, and the writer trusts 

 that it will have some influence in promoting the health, happiness, and 

 welfare of all who may honor it with a careful perusal. The principles 

 advocated have been, to a great extent, put in practice in the personal 

 experience of the writer in various parts of the world, and under many 

 vicissitudes, and he has found them to be not vague theories, but prac- 

 tical truths of the greatest importance." 



C03NrTE3SrT3. 



PART L— INTRODUCTORY REMASKS. 

 Hygiene the Better Part of Medicine.— The Four Divisions of Human Life : The 

 First Quarter, or the First Score of Years. The Youne Man ; the Young 

 Woman. The Man ; the Woman. The Declining or Old Man. 



PART n.—EYOIENICS IN SOME DETAIL. 

 Race, Temperaments, and Idiosyncrasies.— Inheritance.— Habit.— Constitution. 

 —The Air we Breathe.— Sewers and Cesspools.— Ozone.— Malaria.— Animal 

 Emanations. — Devitalized House-Air. — Water. — Clothing. — Exercise or 

 Work.- Influence of Occupation upon Longevity.— Limit to Labor.— The 

 Food of Man.— Accessory Food.— Manner of Eatins.- Tea and Coflee.— Al- 

 cohol.— Use and Abuse.— Ardent Spirits.— Wines.-Malt-Liquors.-Tchacco. 

 —Chewing asd Smoking should be forbidden in School.— Report of Naval 

 Surgeons. 



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