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Handbook of Health in War and Peace. A Manual of Personal Preparedness

Handbook of Health in War and Peace. A Manual of Personal Preparedness This little handbook constitutes an admirable health guide, and contains a surprisingly large amount of practical information within small compass. The topics taken up include Food and Nutrition, Pure Foods and Clean Foods, Rest and Exercise, Posture, Fresh Air, Clothing, Bathing, Care of the Teeth, Drugs and Stimu- lants, Hygiene of Adult Life, Man and the Microbe, Disposal of Wastes, Insects and Disease, Spread of Disease, Immunity, Tuberculosis, Racial Health, Accidents and First Aid. The material is well chosen, the presentation simple, clear and interesting. The booklet is certainly most helpful. Charles F. Bolduan, M. D. Preventive-Medicine and Hygiene. By Milton J. Rosenau, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Harvard University. Third Edition. D. Appleton and Co. New York, 1917. Cloth, $6.50. According to the preface, the present (third) an added chapter, XIII, entitled "Military edition of this well-known work might be called Hygiene," and embracing 120 pages. It is a "special" or military edition for it has been obvious that within this compass only a brief prepared to meet the needs of the present emer- outline of the essentials of this important subgency. It contains a discussion of the Duties ject can be given. Nevertheless the author has and Organization of the Sanitary Corps, the admirably succeeded in condensing a large Examination of Recruits, Diseases of the Soldier, amount of useful material, and in doing so has Sanitation of Troops in Camp and on the March; apparently utilized the most recent sources of Sanitation of Barracks and Trenches, Physical information available. The book remains, as before, the most useful Training, Personal Hygiene and Equipment of single work on the subject of preventive medithe Soldier, Red Cross, Rations, etc. The new material is presented in the form of cine and hygiene. Charle F. Bolduan, M. D. Notes on the Use of Pin Maps and Charts by Health-Officers. Gardner T. Swart, Jr., C. E., Providence, R. I. Educational Exhibition Company, 1917. Illustrated. Price, 25 cens. This little pamphlet of 24 pages, essentially have come into general use and they are valan advertisement for the Educational Exhibition uable as permanent records that can be filed in Company's materials, is in fact a valuable guide small space. The pin method with beads and other accesin modern graphic methods. In its especial field of the use of pins, it supplements the larger sories, described in this booklet, is adopted to standard statistical works, such as "Graphic display a much greater variety of information Methods for Presenting Facts." No health on one map. From the quoted examples of use officer can grasp the details of the incidence and by various departments of health, the health distribution of epidemic diseases in relation to official can readily get valuable pointers in population, except through some graphic method adopting the method to his own requirements. Herman R. Bundesen, M. D. of locating the cases. To this end spot maps A Correction. In an earlier issue of the JOURNAL we published informed by the publishers, McGraw-Hill a review of Parker's "City Milk Supply," in' Book Co., that the price is $5.00 net, and not which the price was given as $1.50. We are $1.50.-EDITOR. 1052 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

Handbook of Health in War and Peace. A Manual of Personal Preparedness

Charles F. Bolduan
American Journal of Public Health , Volume 7 (12) – Dec 1, 1917
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This little handbook constitutes an admirable health guide, and contains a surprisingly large amount of practical information within small compass. The topics taken up include Food and Nutrition, Pure Foods and Clean Foods, Rest and Exercise, Posture, Fresh Air, Clothing, Bathing, Care of the Teeth, Drugs and Stimu- lants, Hygiene of Adult Life, Man and the Microbe, Disposal of Wastes, Insects and Disease, Spread of Disease, Immunity, Tuberculosis, Racial Health, Accidents and First Aid. The material is well chosen, the presentation simple, clear and interesting. The booklet is certainly most helpful. Charles F. Bolduan, M. D. Preventive-Medicine and Hygiene. By Milton J. Rosenau, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Harvard University. Third Edition. D. Appleton and Co. New York, 1917. Cloth, $6.50. According to the preface, the present (third) an added chapter, XIII, entitled "Military edition of this well-known work might be called Hygiene," and embracing 120 pages. It is a "special" or military edition for it has been obvious that within this compass only a brief prepared to meet the needs of the present emer- outline of the essentials of this important subgency. It contains a discussion of the Duties ject can be given. Nevertheless the author has and Organization of the Sanitary Corps, the admirably succeeded in condensing a large Examination of Recruits, Diseases of the Soldier, amount of useful material, and in doing so has Sanitation of Troops in Camp and on the March; apparently utilized the most recent sources of Sanitation of Barracks and Trenches, Physical information available. The book remains, as before, the most useful Training, Personal Hygiene and Equipment of single work on the subject of preventive medithe Soldier, Red Cross, Rations, etc. The new material is presented in the form of cine and hygiene. Charle F. Bolduan, M. D. Notes on the Use of Pin Maps and Charts by Health-Officers. Gardner T. Swart, Jr., C. E., Providence, R. I. Educational Exhibition Company, 1917. Illustrated. Price, 25 cens. This little pamphlet of 24 pages, essentially have come into general use and they are valan advertisement for the Educational Exhibition uable as permanent records that can be filed in Company's materials, is in fact a valuable guide small space. The pin method with beads and other accesin modern graphic methods. In its especial field of the use of pins, it supplements the larger sories, described in this booklet, is adopted to standard statistical works, such as "Graphic display a much greater variety of information Methods for Presenting Facts." No health on one map. From the quoted examples of use officer can grasp the details of the incidence and by various departments of health, the health distribution of epidemic diseases in relation to official can readily get valuable pointers in population, except through some graphic method adopting the method to his own requirements. Herman R. Bundesen, M. D. of locating the cases. To this end spot maps A Correction. In an earlier issue of the JOURNAL we published informed by the publishers, McGraw-Hill a review of Parker's "City Milk Supply," in' Book Co., that the price is $5.00 net, and not which the price was given as $1.50. We are $1.50.-EDITOR. 1052

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Published: Dec 1, 1917

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