First edition, second impression. viii, 322pp, colour plate frontispiece and drawings, diagrams etc in text. Blue publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name neatly inked on front free endpaper. Endpapers have a hint of tanning else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn and torn dust wrapper, with some loss around corners and spine ends, cracks over spine.
A scholarly examination of the latest thinking on health and hygiene in the 1950s, reflecting the rapid changes of preceding years and new approaches to teaching health and hygiene; extensive discussion of the causes of disease with an interesting opening chapter on diseases in the ancient world.
