Special Contributors
Food Adulteration
S. Josephine Baker, M.D.
Medical Inspector, New York City Department of Health.
Pure Water Supply
William Paul Gerhard, C.E.
Consulting Engineer for Sanitary Works; Member of American Public Health Association; Member, American Society Mechanical Engineers; Corresponding Member of American Institute of Architects, etc.; Author of "House Drainage," etc.
Care of Food
Janet McKenzie Hill
Editor, Boston Cooking School Magazine.
Nerves and Outdoor Life
S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., LL.D.
LL.D. (Harvard, Edinburgh, Princeton); Former President, Philadelphia College of Physicians; Member, National Academy of Sciences, Association of American Physicians, etc.; Author of essays: "Injuries to Nerves," "Doctor and Patient," "Fat and Blood," etc.; of scientific works: "Researches Upon the Venom of the Rattlesnake," etc.; of novels: "Hugh Wynne," "Characteristics," "Constance Trescott," "The Adventures of François," etc.
Sanitation
George M. Price, M.D.
Former Medical Sanitary Inspector, Department of Health, New York City; Inspector, New York Sanitary Aid Society of the 10th Ward, 1885; Manager, Model Tenement-houses of the New York Tenement-house Building Co., 1888; Inspector, New York State Tenement-house Commission, 1895; Author of "Tenement-house Inspection," "Handbook on Sanitation," etc.
Indoor Exercise
Dudley Allen Sargent, M.D.
Director of Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University; Former President, American Physical Culture Society; Director, Normal School of Physical Training, Cambridge, Mass.; President, American Association for Promotion of Physical Education; Author of "Universal Test for Strength," "Health, Strength and Power," etc.
Long Life
Sir Henry Thompson, Bart., F.R.C.S., M.B. (Lond.)
Surgeon Extraordinary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians; Consulting Surgeon to University College Hospital, London; Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery to University College, London, etc.
Camp Comfort
Stewart Edward White
Author of "The Forest," "The Mountains," "The Silent Places," "The Blazed Trail," etc.
WALTER REED.
In the year 1900, Major Walter Reed, a surgeon in the United States Army, demonstrated, by experiments conducted in Cuba, that a mosquito of a single species, Stegomyia fasciata, which has sucked the blood of a yellow-fever patient may transmit the disease by biting another person, but not until about twelve days have elapsed. He also proved, as described in Volume I, Part II, that the malady is not contagious. "With the exception of the discovery of anæsthesia," said Professor Welch, of Johns Hopkins University, "Dr. Reed's researches are the most valuable contributions to science ever made in this country." General Leonard Wood declared the discovery to be the "greatest medical work of modern times," which, in the words of President Roosevelt, "renders mankind his debtor." Major Reed died November 23, 1902.
The Home Medical
Library
VOLUME V :: SANITATION
Edited by
Thomas Darlington, M.D.
Health Commissioner of New York City; Former President Medical
Board, New York Foundling Hospital, etc.; Author of
Medical and Climatological Works
WATER SUPPLY AND PURIFICATION
By WILLIAM PAUL GERHARD, C.E.
Consulting Engineer for Sanitary Works; Author of "House Drainage,"
"Sanitary Engineering," "Household Wastes," etc.
PURE FOOD FOR THE
HOUSEKEEPER
By S. JOSEPHINE BAKER, M.D.
Medical Inspector, New York City Department of Health
THE HOUSE AND GROUNDS
By GEORGE M. PRICE, M.D.
Former Medical Sanitary Inspector, Department of Health, New
York City; Author of "Tenement-House Inspection,"
"Handbook on Sanitation," etc.
New York
The Review of Reviews Company
1907
Copyright, 1907, by
The Review of Reviews Company
THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK