HYGIÈNE: OR, THE HAND-BOOK OF HEALTH. In Two Parts. THE FIRST PART BEING ADDRESSED TO MEMBERS OF DISTRICT BOARDS MAGISTRATES, CLERGYMEN, ETC. THE SECOND PART TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL. BY HARRY WM. LOBB, L.S.A., M.R.C.S.E. Salus populi suprema lex. Μεγα Βιβλιον, μέγα κακον. PRICE TWO SHILLINGS. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 1855. 151. c. 170. PREFACE. I HAVE been long expecting a popular work on Hygiène ; but as no one has come forward to fill the vacancy, this little work is published as a stop-gap until a better should appear. I shall make no apology for the large extracts that I have made from the authors I have consulted, as I do not pretend to produce an original work, but a useful one. The works of Drs. Pereira, Dunglison, West, and others, are addressed to the profession, and are not intelligible to the general public, on account of the technicalities they contain, and their style altogether. The present volume is intended for readers of all classes, containing the rules found most conducive to health, by the most eminent physicians, past and present. "Prevention is better than cure," is so old a proverb, and has become so musty, that, except on rare occasions, it is never acted upon; but if it were, in reference to health, our epidemics would be less in frequency, and milder in character, and we should gra |