BOOKS BY PROFESSOR GLAISTER POISONING BY ARSENIURETTED HYDROGEN OR HYDROGEN ARSENIDE Its Properties, Sources, Relations to Scientific and Industrial Operations, Symptoms, Post-Mortem Appearances, Treatment and Prevention. With a Record of 120 Cases by different Observers. One vol., crown 8vo, cloth. 5s. net. "Will prove of great value to those at all interested in the subject." Journal of American Medical Association. "Forms a valuable contribution to the somewhat sparse literature on the subject."-Glasgow Medical Journal. "Professor Glaister has written an interesting book upon a somewhat obscure subject."-British Medical Journal. A MANUAL OF HYGIENE FOR "Admirably adapted to fulfil its purpose." --Dublin Journal of Medical Science. "We commend the work to general practitioners." -Practitioner. Second Edition. Lately Published, 14s. net. A Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence Demy 8vo, cloth, pp. 784 + xx., with 130 Illustrations. "The most clearly expressed exposition of the subject that has come under our notice."-British Medical Journal. "An excellent manual."-Lancet. "No more useful treatise is available."-Folia Therapeutica. EDINBURGH E. & S. LIVINGSTONE, 15 TEVIOT PLACE 1 PUBLIC HEALTH BY JOHN GLAISTER, M.D., D.P.H. (CAMB.), F.R.S.E. Professor of Forensic Medicine and Public Health in the University of Glasgow; Ex-President for Diplomas in Medicine and Surgery, and Examiner in Public Health for the Diploma in Public Health of these United Corporations; formerly Examiner in the University of Birmingham; Senior Medico-Legal Examiner Second Edition ith 133 Ellustrations EDINBURGH E. & S. LIVINGSTONE 15 TEVIOT PLACE 1425 454 1710 PREFACE THIS volume is the outcome of the division of the subjects contained in the author's "Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence, Toxicology, and Public Health." The demands of the modern growth of these subjects compelled the author to divide them, and accordingly, he issued a first volume dealing with Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology some months ago. The section dealing with Public Health, which constituted the Second Part of that text-book, now reappears in this volume. The author has reason already to believe that this change has been of advantage to students and practitioners alike, so far at least as the first volume is concerned. He hopes that the present volume will also prove acceptable to those more especially interested in Public Health. He has followed in this volume the same general arrangement of subjects as in the original treatise. Each division of the subject has been amplified and brought into line with present advancements. The work, as a whole, has accordingly been largely re-written, and has undergone considerable enlargement, not only by matter being added to those subjects which were formerly treated, but also by the inclusion of new subjects. In particular, there has been introduced a fairly full treatment of Sanitary Law. From his experience as a teacher of Public Health during the past twenty-five years, he has found that the average student is less attracted to this part of the subject than to the others. That, he believes, is in the main due to the fact that Sanitary Law has had hitherto to be studied in separate works, the law being thus divorced from its application. In this work, the author has followed the line of his teaching, and has attempted to correlate the law to each division. of the subject treated of in the text. Thus in regard to air-supply, water-supply, sewerage and disposal of sewage, and infectious diseases, for example, the law relating to the same is set down after the discussion of the subjects of air, water, sewage, and infectious diseases respectively. The effect is that the student will find to his hand the law dealing with each branch of the subject, instead of having to read two or more books or many Acts of Parliament which bear on these subjects separately. Moreover, where the subject lends itself to such treatment, the author has instituted a comparison of the law of England with the law of Scotland, and in many instances also with the law of Ireland, respecting LANE LIBRARY. STANFORD UNIVERSITY |