"In matters of prevention, knowledge is power.' DR. BURDON SANDERSON, Harveian Oration. "A few scratches with a pen are better than whole pages of the most elaborate description.' MRS. JAMESON, Legends of the Madonna. "Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem "Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus." 66 Hor. Epist. ad Pisones, l. 180. Things by the ear received men's minds excite "Much less than when submitted to the sight; "For the spectator, with his trusty eyes, "To his own mind impressions best applies." Translated by ANDREW WOOD, M.D. DANGERS TO HEALTH: A PICTORIAL GUIDE ΤΟ DOMESTIC SANITARY DEFECTS, BY T. PRIDGIN TEALE, M.A., " SURGEON TO THE GENERAL INFIRMARY AT LEEDS. FOURTH EDITION. SITY NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co., BOND STREET, 1883. DEDICATED ΤΟ THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, whose members, in the matter of health, public and private, have deemed it their duty-not only to restore, but to conserve,—not only to remedy, but to prevent,-not only to place their labours at the service of present suffering, but, pointing out through evil report and good report the sources of such suffering, to spend their energies in averting some of the thousand ills that flesh is heir to. |