Excerpt from The Care of the Body This book is intended chiefly for the young man, and is founded on the belief that an intelli gent man, without technical knowledge of medi cine, and without excessive attention to the care of his health, can still do much to keep himself in good condition. An intelligent man will desire to understand the reasons for his actions, and will demand some information regarding the pro cesses of the body as a basis for undertaking the management of his health. Accordingly the book enters, ...
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Excerpt from The Care of the Body This book is intended chiefly for the young man, and is founded on the belief that an intelli gent man, without technical knowledge of medi cine, and without excessive attention to the care of his health, can still do much to keep himself in good condition. An intelligent man will desire to understand the reasons for his actions, and will demand some information regarding the pro cesses of the body as a basis for undertaking the management of his health. Accordingly the book enters, not too deeply, into some of the im portant topics of physiology, but, not wishing to stray far from the practical, it makes no effort to be complete on the scientific side. It is a book on hygiene. Of the two great divisions of this sub J ect, it is concerned almost entirely with what is called personal hygiene, though it contains a few allusions to the importance of public hygiene, the most promising science of the times. Public hygiene is the concern of the specialist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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