Man and Epidemics

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The Conquest of Epidemic Disease
By C.-E. A. WINSLOW
This is the story of how man has sought to solve the mystery of epidemic disease. Dr. Winslow makes a unified narrative of this long intellectual adventure—one of the most diiScult and thrilling quests that has ever engaged the mind of man.
It is as a history of ideas that the author has regarded his tremendous subject. In the pages of the book the reader meets some of the great minds of the ages—Hippocrates, Galen, Fracastorius, Paracelsus, Kircher, Mead, Rush, Chadwick, and many others.
"An interesting, authoritative, and accurate volume."—Scientific Monthly.
426 pages. illustrated. $4-50
Temperature and Human Life
By C.-E. A. WINSLOW and L. P. HERRINGTON
How heat and humidity affect human life and what artificial controls are most effective are questions this book attempts to analyze and answer. The authors here explore the entire field of the relation of the human body to its thermal environment. While in a strict... Tovább

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The Conquest of Epidemic Disease
By C.-E. A. WINSLOW
This is the story of how man has sought to solve the mystery of epidemic disease. Dr. Winslow makes a unified narrative of this long intellectual adventure—one of the most diiScult and thrilling quests that has ever engaged the mind of man.
It is as a history of ideas that the author has regarded his tremendous subject. In the pages of the book the reader meets some of the great minds of the ages—Hippocrates, Galen, Fracastorius, Paracelsus, Kircher, Mead, Rush, Chadwick, and many others.
"An interesting, authoritative, and accurate volume."—Scientific Monthly.
426 pages. illustrated. $4-50
Temperature and Human Life
By C.-E. A. WINSLOW and L. P. HERRINGTON
How heat and humidity affect human life and what artificial controls are most effective are questions this book attempts to analyze and answer. The authors here explore the entire field of the relation of the human body to its thermal environment. While in a strict sense this is a study in physiology, the book will be important to architects, heating and ventilating engineers, designers of clothing, public health officials, doctors, and everyone who is concerned with the .effects of temperature on the human body. 286 pages. $3.50
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

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By C.-E. A. WINSLOW
The conquest of epidemic diseases spread by water, milk, and food and transmitted by insects and rodents is one of the outstanding achievements of man in the past century. In the United States it has added twenty-five years to the average life-span, and the once-dreaded terror of uncontrolled outbreaks of epidemic diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, bubonic plague, yellow fever, and malaria is a thing of the past.
This book presents for the general reader a fascinating account of the modern engineering practices and scientific methods of control that make it possible for the average citizen to draw an ample flow of pure water from the faucet, to enjoy a milk supply of safe and sanitary quality, and to eat food without fear of infection. Although not designed for the expert, the book also provides a historical and philosophical background for the professional worker in the field of public health.
Dr. Winslow, who himself has made many contributions to the public health progress of this nation and the world in the past fifty years, is professor emeritus of public health at the Yale School of Medicine and special consultant to the World Health Organization. He is the author of The Conquest of Epidemic Disease (see back of this jacket).
The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush
edited by GEORGE W. CORNER
"No man has left a deeper imprint on our medical history than Benjamin Rush. Signer of the Declaration of Independence, physician-general of Washington's army in the early days of the Revolution, a foremost teacher and physician of his day, Rush was, as well, a stormy petrel about whose head raged as bitter a medical and political controversy as history records. . . . Faultlessly edited and annotated, this journal is now published, for the first time, in its complete, unexpurgated form."—Dr. Frank G. Slaughter, in N.Y. Times.
512 PAGES. ILLUS. $6.00
The Letters of Benjamin Rush
edited by L. H. BUTTERFIELD
This collection of over 650 letters is a companion piece to the Autobiografhy. Written between 1761 and 1813, the letters portray Rush's medical studies in Scotland and England, his Revolutionary activities, and his labors as Philadelphia's leading physician. Two fascinating series of letters chronicle the failures of the hospital service in the Revolutionary War and the Philadelphia yellow-fever epidemic of 1793.
2 vols., 1,300 pages. illus. $1^.00 Vissza