Rosenau. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene

Somatic hygiene: osteopathic manipulative medicine as preventive treatment.

Before the later part of the 20th century, patients rarely came to a physician’s door unless they were feeling unwell. Lucky for all of us, we live in an age when people are more aware of the importance of keeping themselves healthy and when insurance companies and the government will reimburse routine visits to promote the maintenance of health. These entities are also looking for ways to reim...

Preventive Medicine in World War II. Vol. II, Environmental Hygiene

This volume is the first of a series to be published recording the accomplishments of various divisions of the Preventive Medicine Service of the U.S. Army during World War II. The whole story of these accomplishments , which took a variety of forms and were carried out in combat on many fronts, is a record of how preventive medicine grew mightily during the past generation and particularly dur...

The Practitioner's Library of Medicine and Surgery. Volume XII. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. 1937

a campaign to deal with this problem and emphasizes the part played by the practitioner in this scheme; the worker in India will get many valuable hints from this chapter. Early chapters discuss the hygiene of nutrition, of clothes, of exercise and rest, and of air and sunshine, sex hygiene, maternity and child hygiene, and personal mental hygiene. Sewage disposal and the protection of water su...

Industrial Hygiene and Medicine

A text-book on this subject has been long overdue and the authors are to be congratulated on the production of such an interesting and readable volume which contains much important work hitherto accessible to the student only in scattered writings. The book includes admirable descriptions of modern industrial processes, viz., mining, iron and steel working, textile industries, potteries and gla...

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene