6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 40

Lessons on Health. By Arthur Newsholme, M.D. (W. H. Allen

and Co.)—Dr. Newsholme's "lessons" are of a most simple and elementary nature, and will not, indeed, be unnecessary for that reason. The public nowadays pay more attention to the fanciful structure which sanitary science has reared, than to the homely foundation without which it is of no use whatever. We must go over the familiar grounds of physiology, food, ventilation, and drainage, and draw plain conclusions from them, taking care not to neglect the most simple precautions of home-life, advice which " Health officers " do not always pay much attention to, and about which the ordinary housewife wants a hint.