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Title: Preventable Diseases
Author: Woods Hutchinson
Release Date: June 29, 2007 [EBook #21965]
Language: English
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PREVENTABLE DISEASES
BY
WOODS HUTCHINSON, A.M., M.D.
_Author of "Studies in Human and Comparative Pathology," "Instinct and
Health," etc., etc. Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York Polyclinic,
late Lecturer in Comparative Pathology, London Medical Graduates College
and University of Buffalo_
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press
Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1907, 1908 AND 1909, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY WOODS HUTCHINSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
_Published November 1909_
FIFTH IMPRESSION
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By Woods Hutchinson
THE CONQUEST OF CONSUMPTION. Illustrated.
12mo, $1.00 _net_. Postage extra.
PREVENTABLE DISEASES. 12mo, $1.50 _net_.
Postage 13 cents.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
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CONTENTS
I. The Body-Republic and its Defense 1
II. Our Legacy of Health: the Power of Heredity
in the Prevention of Disease 31
III. The Physiognomy of Disease: what a Doctor
can tell from Appearances 55
IV. Colds and how to catch Them 83
V. Adenoids, or Mouth-Breathing: their Cause
and their Consequences 103
VI. Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. I 123
VII. Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. II 140
VIII. The Unchecke
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