Excerpt from Practical Domestic HygieneThe health of the community being closely identified with the health of the individual, patriotism and a desire for self-preservation ought equally to prompt each person to keep well. How to secure this end is the object of the study of Hygiene. Hygiene, however, is based largely upon Anatomy and Physiology hence, to follow the one an elementary know ledge of the others is absolutely necessary.Life in its simplest form is typified in the simple amoeba. Man himself is but a conglomeration of differential amoeboid masses; and just as any departure from a state of health of any one group of protoplasmic masses in the human body tends to disturb the whole human being, so in a com munity of human beings the disease of any single individual reacts upon and is a source of danger to the whole of that society.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.