  | I. | The Body-Republic and its Defense | 1 | | II. | Our Legacy of Health: the Power of Heredity in the Prevention of Disease | 31 | | III. | The Physiognomy of Disease: what a Doctor can tell from Appearances | 55 | | IV. | Colds and how to catch Them | 83 | | V. | Adenoids, or Mouth-Breathing: their Cause and their Consequences | 103 | | VI. | Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. I | 123 | | VII. | Tuberculosis, a Scotched Snake. II | 140 | | VIII. | The Unchecked Great Scourge: Pneumonia | 174 | | IX. | The Natural History of Typhoid Fever | 198 | | X. | Diphtheria: the Modern Moloch | 222 | | XI. | The Herods of Our Day: Scarlet Fever, Measles, and Whooping-Cough | 243 | | XII. | Appendicitis, or Nature's Remnant Sale | 267 | | XIII. | Malaria: the Pestilence that walketh in Darkness; the greatest Foe of the Pioneer | 289 | | XIV. | Rheumatism: what it Is, and particularly what it Isn't | 311 | | XV. | Germ-Foes that follow the Knife, or Death under the Finger-Nail | 331 | | XVI. | Cancer, or Treason in the Body-State | 350 | | XVII. | Headache: the most useful Pain in the World | 367 | | XVIII. | Nerves and Nervousness | 387 | | XIX. | Mental Influence in Disease, or how the Mind affects the Body | 411 | | Index | 439 |
PREVENTABLE DISEASES
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