Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene (Classic Reprint) written by Albert Leary Gihon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene Sir: I beg leave to submit to your consideration the following suggestions of a code of sanitary regulations for the Navy of the United States. The preliminary remarks on the various subjects that come Within the scope of Naval Hygiene are intended chiefly for medical officers Who have just entered the service. Since their professional education is presumed to have been com pleted, I have not considered it requisite to repeat facts that are fully elucidated in works on physiology, nor even to discuss the general principles of hygiene. I have merely attempted to show that the peculiar circumstances of life on shipboard, to which they are as yet strangers, do not necessitate a violation of all the laws of health. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.