RE-ISSUE IN SIXPENNY MONTHLY PARTS. To be Completed in 12 Parts. Part I. ready Oct. 25th. DOMESTIC MEDICINE. By the late EDWIN LANKESTER, M.D., F.R.S. Assisted by Distinguished Members of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. With an Appendix on Sick Nursing and Mothers' Management, and 32 PAGES OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS. the laws which regulate Health there is a general ignorance, very much to be if a more sensible acquaintance with Sanitary necessities existed in our homes! Lack of Cleanliness, want of Ventilation, deficiency of Water supply, non-knowledge of the Functions of the Body, blindness to First Symptoms of Disease-these are culpable causes of Accidents, Diseases, and Deaths. It is sufficiently clear that, until people come to know more about the "house they live in," they will never extirpate chronic disease, nor shall we possess a population healthy and happy. The time has gone when it was necessary to apologise for treating medical subjects in a popular way. It must be understood, however, that the Publishers have no intention of making every man believe that he can be his own doctor. Far from that, they are anxious to impress upon everyone that a medical man is indispensable in all cases of serious illness. There is, however, no good reason why a fair knowledge of Medicine and the Philosophy of Health should not be gained by the general public. In our belief, Physiology and the Laws of Health should form a branch of education in every important school in the country. Knowing something of these, men and women would be enabled to care, rationally, for their health, could observe changes in their sensations suggestive of coming sickness, would have London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE. the ability to explain accurately to the doctor their particular symptoms, and so pave the way to fewer illnesses and quicker restorations to health. There is something curiously ironical in a state of things wherein we all bemoan the loss of health, and yet take no steps to learn anything about the object we prize. ท Cases are constantly occurring in which an early remedy may serve to ward off very serious illness; also, many forms of disease require little beyond intelligent nursing and the very simplest treatment; while in other cases a little elementary know ledge of understood symptoms will enable us to detect the earliest indications of serious illness, and lead us at once, in such instances, to seek the aid of the skilled practitioner. Such a work as the one here announced must, then, appeal to a large class of readers. In the preparation of HAYDN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINE, the late Dr. LANKESTER set himself to produce a work superior to anything of the kind ever before attempted. In this he succeeded even beyond expectation. The work is a Complete Family Doctor, and its instructions may be followed by the intelligent reader with the utmost safety-the name, high position, and reputation of the Editor béing a satisfactory guarantee that the work has been carefully compiled. As a Companion for the Traveller, Emigrant, and Clergyman, as well as for the Heads of Families and Institutions, it will be found of singular utility. In HAYDN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINE we have a Complete System of Medicine and Surgery, made available for popular use, and explained in language intelligible to all. It comprises all possible Self-aids in Accident and Disease, and contains special reference to "those exigencies which may any day befall us, where intelligent assistance may make all the difference between life and death." Not only does HAYDN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINE deal, in clear terms, with Accidents and Disease: it also shows How to Keep Well. The first principles of health-a subject too often neglected in works of this class-are carefully laid down. The work now includes an Appendix on Sick Nursing and Maternal Management, by a competent medical authority; and Thirty-two pages of Wood Engravings, accompanied by descriptive letterpress. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "The best book of its kind."-MEDICAL PRESS AND CIRCULAR. "No more useful present for the household could be found.-MORNING POST. "A most useful, exhaustive, and excellently got-up volume."-FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. Certainly a book fitted to be a treasure in the household."-NONCONFORMIST, "The fullest and most reliable work of its kind."-LIVERPOOL ALBION. "Very exhaustible, and embodies an enormous amount of medical information in an intelligible shape."-SCOTSMAN. Orders for Part I. of HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE are now received by all Booksellers, and copies of this Prospectus will be forwarded by the Publishers post free in any quantities for Distribution. London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. J. OGDEN AND CO., PRINTERS, 172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C. |