Health on the Farm: A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene

“The book goes right at matters, and it is almost invaluable. It deals with all sorts of emergencies and accidents and diseases liable to come from impure water or infected air. It discusses the abomination of pickles and the food value of vegetables. Sanitation about the house is thoroughly discussed and the importance of good cooking. Best of all it shows you how to avoid diseases rather than heal them. It goes so far as to add an appendix of tip-top cooking recipes.” -Unity

“Should be in the library of every dweller in suburban and rural districts.” -Maryland Medical Journal

“It is a book of great practical value, and moreover, very interesting, not only to the farmer, but to everyone who lives in the country.” -The Outlook

“Full of the most helpful information from a family physician and a scientific one at that.” -Literary Digest

“No evil in American rural life is so great as the tendency of the young people to leave the farm and the village. The only way to overcome this evil is to make rural life less hard and sordid; more comfortable and attractive. It is to the solving of that problem that these books are addressed. Their central idea is to show how country life may be made richer in interest, broader in its activities and its outlook, and sweeter to the taste.” -Ernest Ingersoll

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I Importance of Our Subject

II Care of the Person

III Sanitation In and About the House

IV Hygiene of Infancy and Childhood

V Proper Eating—The Secret of Good Health

VI Bread and Its Relations

VII Meats, Sugars and Milk

VIII Food-Value of Vegetables

IX Danger in Fruits and Pickles

X Drinks—Proper and Harmful

XI Importance of Good Cooking

XII Seven Avoidable Diseases

XIII Hygiene of the Sick Room

XIV Emergencies and Accidents

XV What to do When Poisoned

Appendix