A public-domain classic by Woods Hutchinson — hygiene. Read instantly, yours forever.
THE BODY-REPUBLIC AND ITS DEFENSE The human body as a mechanism is far from perfect. It can be beaten or surpassed at almost every point by some product of the machine-shop or some animal. It does almost nothing perfectly or with absolute precision. As Huxley most unexpectedly remarked a score of years ago, "If a manufacturer of optical instruments were to hand us for laboratory use an instrument so full of defects and imperfections as the human eye, we should promptly decline to accept it and r
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Preventable Diseases, by Woods Hutchinson. A freely-licensed classic (Project Gutenberg), reformatted for the ÁPICE BOOKS reader. Subjects: Hygiene, Medicine. Buy once, read on any device — no subscription.
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