(1) Perfect Health for Women and Children (2) Hypnotism and Disease: a Plea for National Psychotherapy (3) Modern Sanitary Engineering

Abstract

THE author's experience as a woman doctor has frequently shown to her how necessary it is to women, especially mothers, that they should be supplied with information which will be of service to them in health and sickness; and the book which she has written aims at supplying intelligent women with such useful information. The simple facts of hygiene, properly understood and practised, cannot fail to prevent much disease, and a knowledge of the domestic treatment of common ailments will in many cases avert serious complications. Miss Chesser has to be commended for having treated a wide subject in such a sound, common-sense and practical manner as will make the book appeal to every class of reader, both lay and medical. The author does not mince matters when she finds fault with the unhygienic practices of the present day; and the work is full of good, telling sentences, such as, “if women paid as much attention to their teeth as they do to their complexions, they would be 50 per cent, healthier and better looking.”

(1) Perfect Health for Women and Children.

Elizabeth S. Chesser. Pp. xi + 276. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., n.d.) Price 3s. 6d. net.

(2) Hypnotism and Disease: a Plea for National Psychotherapy.

Dr. Hugh C. Miller. Pp. 252. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.) Price 5s. net.

(3) Modern Sanitary Engineering.

Part i., House Drainage. M.A. G. Thomson, Pp. xv + 266. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1912.) 6s. net.