(1) Rural Hygiene (2) The Fasting Cure (3) Exercising in Bed: the Story of an Old Body and Face made Young The Simplest and most Effective System of Exercise ever Devised

Abstract

(1) THIS book, though written by an engineer and therefore dealing more particularly with the constructional side of hygiene, contains a considerable amount of epidemiological data, and forms a complete simple treatise on the subject of which it treats. Rural hygiene is of much importance, and many problems present themselves for solution which do not arise in towns and cities. Although dealing with American practice, it is quite applicable in this country, and includes details somewhat novel to us. Thus for waterproofing cellars, it is suggested that the wall may be built in two layers with a half-inch interspace which is filled with asphalt, or that the out side of the wall may be painted with hot tar into which several layers of tar-paper are pressed, the several sheets overlapping in a special coating of tar. A simple test is given for ascertaining the amount of sand in gravel used for making concrete, by which the proper proportion of sand may be arrived at. While giving current views on a subject, the author does not hesitate to state facts which are not altogether in agreement with them, e.g. as regard the unhealthiness of made soil (p. 37). Altogether the book is one which may be read with pleasure and profit.

(1) Rural Hygiene.

By Prof. H. N. Ogden. Pp. xvii + 434. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 6s. 6d. net.

(2) The Fasting Cure.

By Upton Sinclair. Pp. 261. (London: W. Heinemann, 1911.) Price 2s. 6d. net.

(3) Exercising in Bed: the Story of an Old Body and Face made Young. The Simplest and most Effective System of Exercise ever Devised.

By Sanford Bennett. Second edition. Pp. xi + 262 + xii–lxiii + 263–268. (New York: The Physical Culture Publishing Co., n.d.)