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WE are not surprised that this little book has passed into a second edition. The plan of it is well conceived and the matter excellently written. It tells in the simplest language, with many appropriate comparisons which drive home the meaning, the structure of the body and its functions, how health may be safeguarded, and how disease is propagated. Disease germs, their mode of spread and entrance into the body, are explained, and the salient points with regard to the principal infective diseases are adequately considered. Being avowedly written for residents in the tropics, and in particular for those in Freetown, West Africa, diseases like malaria, cholera, plague, sleeping sickness, leprosy, &c., receive considerable attention, but otherwise the details given are equally applicable to the hygiene of any district.
Lessons on Elementary Hygiene and Sanitation, with Special Reference to the Tropics.
By W. T. Prout. Second edition, 1909. Pp. xx + 159. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1908.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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H., R. Lessons on Elementary Hygiene and Sanitation, with Special Reference to the Tropics . Nature 85, 270 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085270a0
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