We have seen in the Book of Medicine already that times were very different 100 years ago.  The infant mortality rate was much much higher and life expectancy was much lower as well.
As such people had a much different perspective.  They often distanced their emotions just a bit from their children.  Furthermore, their concerns for [...]

This is the opening pages, an introduction to the Library of Health. The book was originally edited by Benjamin Frank Scholl,Ph.G., M.D. and Anne McFarland Sharp B.A., M.D. and Frank E. Miller, A.M., M.D.
The opening sequence reads as follows:
Wide Thanks to those that Have Gone Before
the use of home medical books has now [...]