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Excerpt from General Advice Regarding the Use and Preservation of the Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat <p>Second only to the crime of not properly safe guarding the health Of his children is the sin the adult commits in neglecting to care for himself. Men and women doing the finest kind Of eye work in improperly or insufficiently lighted rooms; absolute disregard for ventilation in offices and work rooms, Often even in the homes of the wealthy; failure to regard colds in the head or purulent discharges from the ear as Of any consequence until some dangerous complica tion arises, such as pneumonia or meningitis; these are conditions commonly Observed and at tributable partly to ignorance, partly to neglect. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.