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Principles of Public Health. Thomas Dyer Tuttle
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Thomas Dyer Tuttle
Principles of Public Health
A Simple Text Book on Hygiene, Presenting the Principles Fundamental to the Conservation of Individual and Community Health
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664573803
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I CONSTANT DANGER OF ILLNESS
CHAPTER II THE NECESSITY OF CARING FOR THE BODY
CHAPTER III HOW CLOTHING AFFECTS HEALTH
CHAPTER VII DECOMPOSITION OF FOOD
CHAPTER VIII HARM DONE BY IMPROPER COOKING
CHAPTER IX HOW NEATNESS, CHEERFULNESS, AND GOOD MANNERS PROMOTE HEALTH
CHAPTER X DANGERS FROM POOR TEETH
CHAPTER XI NECESSITY FOR PURE AIR AND HOW TO SECURE IT
CHAPTER XII REST ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH
CHAPTER XIII CARE OF THE EYE AND EAR
CHAPTER XV COMMON POISONS TO BE AVOIDED
CHAPTER XVII ENCOURAGEMENT OF DISEASE BY UNCLEANLY HABITS
CHAPTER XVIII FLIES AS CARRIERS OF DISEASE
CHAPTER XIX HOW DISEASE GERMS GET INTO WATER
CHAPTER XX TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE THROUGH THE AIR
CHAPTER XXI INSECTS AS CARRIERS OF DISEASE
CHAPTER XXII HOW TO KEEP GERMS OUT OF WOUNDS
CHAPTER XXIII TRANSMISSION OF DIPHTHERIA
CHAPTER XXIV THE CURE OF DIPHTHERIA
CHAPTER XXV HOW TYPHOID FEVER GERMS ARE CARRIED
CHAPTER XXVI HOOKWORM DISEASE AND AMOEBIC DYSENTERY
CHAPTER XXVII HOW SCARLET FEVER IS CARRIED
CHAPTER XXVIII MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH DANGEROUS DISEASES
CHAPTER XXIX HOW SMALLPOX IS PREVENTED
CHAPTER XXX WHY VACCINATION SOMETIMES SEEMS A FAILURE
CHAPTER XXXI CONSUMPTION, THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE
CHAPTER XXXII HOW CONSUMPTION IS SPREAD AND HOW PREVENTED
CHAPTER XXXIII HOW CONSUMPTION IS CURED
APPENDIX [4] A SUMMARY OF ANATOMY
INTRODUCTION
The earliest history of remote ages describes methods employed in combating disease, and down through all the centuries the struggle against infection has been going on. The science of health as applied in recent years reveals wonderful progress in the avoidance of disease, and in the control of the violent epidemics by which in the past nations were almost exterminated. Modern methods of hygiene and sanitation as applied to public health have robbed smallpox and diphtheria of their death-dealing power; cholera and yellow fever have been forced to retreat before the victorious hosts of applied medical science; tuberculosis, the greatest foe of human life, is slowly but surely receding before the determined efforts of modern preventive medicine.
By nature man is endowed with resistive power sufficient to ward off most forms of disease, provided he keeps his health at a normal standard by right living. If, however, he allows his health to become impaired by reason of overwork, bad habits, wilful exposure to contagion or unhealthful surroundings, he readily falls a prey to disease.
The author of Principles of Public Health has here set forth the general rules of life by the observance of which every