Excerpt from New Primer of Hygiene: A Simple Textbook on Personal Health and How to Keep ItIN comparatively recent years a new knowledge that is able to save man from a great part of the sickness that has heretofore af¿icted him has come into the world. This knowledge reaches the people but slowly, however, and there are yet at all times in the United States three millions of people who are seriously ill, one half of them suffering from ail ments that are easily preventable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.