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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