The principles of hygiene : a practical manual for students, physicians, and health officers / by D.H. Bergey.

  • Bergey, D. H. (David Hendricks), 1860-1937.
Date:
1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The principles of hygiene : a practical manual for students, physicians, and health officers / by D.H. Bergey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    PREFACE. This book has been prepared to meet the needs of students of medicine in the acquirement of a knowledge of those principles on which modern hygienic practices are based; to aid students in architecture in comprehend- ing the sanitary requirements in ventilation, heating, water-supply, and sewage-disposal; and to aid physicians and health ofl&cers in familiarizing themselves with the advances made in hygienic practices in recent years. The rapid strides made in our knowledge of the entire subject of hygiene has rendered such a book, based upon the more recent discoveries, almost a necessity to students of medicine. No attempt has been made to treat the subject in an exhaustive manner, the object being merely to give the general principles upon which the health officer and the physician work in their respective capacities in dealing with conditions which are detrimental to health or which tend to improve health. The entire range of subjects comprising the compre- hensive field of hygiene has not been discussed, but all those subjects which appeared to the author to be most important for those for whom the book has been pre- pared have received the consideration which their relative importance demanded. The metric system of weights and measures has been employed throughout the work except in quotations,