Excerpt from The Book of Health
The object of this Work is to place before the general reader, in an intelligible form, and in language free from technical obscurity, the principal rules that should be adopted for the preservation of Health. Directions for the treatment of disease are purposely omitted, for it is intended to teach, not how disease can be cured, but how it can. Be prevented. The laws of public and private hygiene are' now matters of vital interest to all classes of society, and it is generally recognised that carelessness and ignorance often lead to the establish ment or the spread of disease which might in the first instance have been easily avoided. No work of authority, however, existed to which those desirous of readily obtaining information on special subjects could refer, hence the present publication, in the production of iwhich 'the Editor has been honoured with the co-operation of eminent members of the Medical Profession. To these gentlemen he begs.
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