Preface.

Since the publication of Lord St. Leonard's Handy Book of Property Law, popular manuals on scientific subjects have needed no apology. The following little work is not intended to enable people to treat themselves, except in the very simplest cases; it is rather designed to enable them to form some idea of the causes, the symptoms, the treatment, and the probable results of some of the most frequently occurring diseases to which the English are subject.

Hanley, Staffordshire.