ns on which health depends, have been clearly and succinctly
explained. Hence it may be called a treatise on the principles of
hygiene, or health.

To render this department more complete, there has been added the
appropriate treatment for burns, wounds, hemorrhage from divided
arteries, the management of persons asphyxiated from drowning,
carbonic acid, or strangling, directions for nurses, watchers, and the
removal of disease, together with an Appendix, containing antidotes
for poisons, so that persons may know what _should be done_, and what
_should not be done_, until a surgeon or physician can be called.

In attempting to effect this in a brief elementary treatise designed
for schools and families, it has not been deemed necessary to use
vulgar phrases for the purpose of being understood. The appropriate
scientific term should be applied to each organ. No more effort is
required to learn the meaning of a _proper_, than an improper term.
For example: a child will pronounce the word as readily, and obtain as
correct an idea, if you say _lungs_, as if you used the word _lights_.
A little effort on the part of teachers and parents, would diminish
the number of vulgar terms and phrases, and, consequently, improve the
language of our country. To obviate all objections to the use of
proper scientific terms, a Glossary has been appended to the work.

The author makes no pretensions to new discoveries in physiological
science. In preparing the anatomical department, the able treatises of
Wilson, Cruveilhier, and others have been freely consulted. In the
physiological part, the splendid works of Carpenter, Dunglison,
Liebig, and others have been perused. In the department of hygiene
many valuable hints have been obtained from the meritorious works of
Combe, Rivers, and others.

We are under obligations to R. D. Mussey, M. D., formerly Professor of
Anatomy and Surgery, Dartmouth College, N. H., now Professor of
Surgery in the Ohio Medical College; to J. E. M'Girr, A. M., M. D.,
Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry, St. Mary's
University, Ill.; to E. Hitchcock, Jr., A. M., M. D., Teacher of
Chemistry and Natural History, Williston Seminary, Mass.; to Rev. E.
Hitchcock, D. D., President of Amherst College, Mass., who examined
the revised edition of this work, and whose valuable suggestions
rendered important aid in preparing the manuscript for the present
stereotype edition.

We return our acknowledgments for t