Chapter I: Front Matter

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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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 Unchecked Great Scourge: Pneumonia 174

IX. The Natural History of Typhoid Fever 198

X. Diphtheria: the Modern Moloch 222

XI. The Herods of Our Day: Scarlet Fever,
Measles, and Whooping-Cough 243

XII. Appendicitis, or Nature's Remnant Sale 267

XIII. Malaria: the Pestilence that walketh in Darkness;
the greatest Foe of the Pioneer 289

XIV. Rheumatism: what it Is, and particularly
what it Isn't 311

XV. Germ-Foes that follow the Knife, or Death
under the Finger-Nail 331

XVI. Cancer, or Treason in the Body-State 350

XVII. Headache: the most useful Pain in the World 367

XVIII. Nerves and Nervousness 387

XIX. Mental Influence in Disease, or how the Mind
affects the Body 411

Index 439

PREVENTABLE DISEASES