Author: RITCHIE, JOHN W.; CALDWELL, JOSEPH S.
Title: Primer of Hygiene - a Simple Textbook on Personal Health and How to Keep It - New-World Health Series, Book I
Description: Yonker-On-Hudson, New York: World Book Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Hassmann, Karl; Heyer, Hermann. "The writers of this text have felt that the greatest immediate service our schools can render is to teach the facts that will enable the people to shake off the great burden of preventable disease that they are now carrying. They believe that hygiene should be faithfully taught in every schoolroom in the land, and that the object of teaching it should be the prevention of sickness. Selects the facts that have been shown by modern science to be vital in health conservation and presents these facts in the simplest form possible." - Preface. Includes illustrations of a Chinese so-called parlor slipper and shoe which are uncomfortably reminiscent of that culture's former practice of binding the feet of women. No mention of any earlier editions/printings. v, [1], 145 pp. Index. Black and white illustrations. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Many internal markings. Front board illustration appears to be missing. A sound reference copy of this fascinating early school guide to personal hygiene and good health.; Illustrations; Sm 8vo. Fair .

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