Preventable Diseases

Overview & Synopsis

The Body-Republic and its Defense, Our Legacy of Health: the Power of
Heredity in the Prevention of Disease, The Physiognomy of Disease: what a Doctor
can tell from Appearances, Colds and how to catch Them, Adenoids, or
Mouth-Breathing: their Cause and their Consequences, Tuberculosis, Scotched
Snake, Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake, The Unchecked Great Scourge: Pneumonia,
The Natural History of Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria: the Modern Moloch, The Herods
of Our Day: Scarlet Fever, Measles, and Whooping-Cough, Appendicitis, or
Nature's Remnant Sale, Malaria: the Pestilence that walketh in Darkness; the
greatest Foe of the Pioneer, Rheumatism, Germ-Foes that follow the Knife,
or Death under the Finger-Nail, Cancer, or Treason in the Body-State, Headache,
Nerves and Nervousness, Mental Influence in Disease, or how the Mind affects the
Body.