To the woman who wishes to protect her family from preventable diseases and is anxious to fit herself in the absence of a trained nurse to give intelligent care to those who are sick, this revision of the Red Cross text-book on Elementary Hygiene and Home Care of the Sick is particularly directed. It should appeal to men and to women who are interested in maintaining the health of their neighborhoods and communities and in affording effective cooperation to the public health authorities. Show Excerpt; and to describe some elementary methods of caring for the sick, which, however simple, are essential to comfort, and sometimes indeed to ultimate recovery. FOR FURTHER READING A History of Nursing--Dock and Nutting, Volume I. The Life of Florence Nightingale--Cook. The Life of Pasteur--Vallery-Radot. The House on Henry Street--Wald. Public Health Nursing--Gardner, Part I, Chapters I-III. Origin and Growth of the Healing Art--Berdoe. Medical History from the Earliest Times--Withington. Under the Red Cross Flag--Boardman. Report on National Vitality--Fisher, (Bulletin 30 of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health. Government Printing Office, Washington). CHAPTER I CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS Diseases of two kinds have long been recognized: first, those transmitted directly or indirectly from person to person, like smallpox, measles, and typhoid fever; and second,