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Reviews 
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Some aspects of Hodgkin’s disease, by Dr. Arthur F. Byfield. 
Eye findings as an aid to the diagnosis of general conditions; a sug- 
gestion for team-work, by Dr. Richard J. Tivnen. 
Some interesting ear cases, by Dr. Robert Sonnenschein. 
Irregular placement and fixation of the large bowel, by Dr. Walter W. 
Hamburger. 
A consideration of the abnormal loss of fluid in contrast with Edema, 
by Dr. Frank Wright. 
The Health | of the Teacher | by | William Estabrook Chancellor [ Author 
of “Our Schools,” etc. | Chicago | Forbes & Company | 1919. Cloth, 
pp. i-ix -f 1-307, including index, $1.25. 
FROM THE PREFACE 
The purpose of this book is to guide teachers in the care of 
their own health while teaching. The need for it arises from 
several sources. First, the occupation has very high rates both 
of deaths and of diseases. Second, teachers read too many school 
physiologies, which have in view the public needs of children 
and youth and which do not teach the whole truth for adults. 
Third, such books as have appeared for adult teachers have not 
been written by men with medical training and experience but 
by teachers of hygiene who have considered the subject pedago- 
gically rather than medically. Fourth, every book so far issued 
associates public sanitation with personal hygiene, thereby adding 
to the sense of responsibility felt by the already burdened teacher. 
The present discussion is meant to be essentially different in 
its motives and purposes. 
The inner purpose of the book is to help teachers maintain 
health despite the necessity to accomodate themselves often to 
seriously unhealthy surroundings and regimen. It is, however, 
well for us all to remember that there are other occupations 
with yet greater difficulties to be met and overcome such as 
medicine, nursing, home management on a farm and some lines 
of factory, store and office employment. Let us, therefore, try 
to endure with healthy cheerfulness what for the present perhaps 
we cannot change. 
And let us not imagine that from the point of view of hygiene 
or of any other art or science, even the best of modern school- 
houses or the latest of modern school courses and programs is 
a finality. Mankind is at the beginning, not the end of the 
discovery of truth. But even such truth as we now have is but 
narrowly distributed and but poorly utilized. In these pages, 
I have endeavored to present in untechnical, non-medical lan- 
guage as far as possible some of the most approved principles 
and practices of physicians and of hygienists for the maintenance 
and protection of the personal health of teachers. 
