"Health and Disease." By Dr. C. G. R. Montoux, Surgeon of Lyon Post No. 8, G. A. R., Oakland, Cal. Author's portrait as a frontispiece. Published by the doctor himself, at Oakland, Cal.
The design of this work is to give a popular exposition on the essentials of health, the causes of disease, the care of the sick and convalescent. The book contains much information on hygiene, physical culture, diet and digestion, clothing, occupation, recreation, etc., etc. One may not always agree with him. He takes little stock in the germ theory of disease, advocates little medicine. Among the causes of disease he includes alcohol, and other intoxicants and tobacco. Like many other physicians, he thinks hypnotism may be used to advantage in the treatment of the sick, a thing to be deplored. An appendix contains an essay on the "Physical Degeneration of the Human Race," another on the "Increasing Occurrence of Childlessness," and a third on "Principles of Sexual Physiology." It is a thought-suggesting book.