How to Live Longer

This book for the layman places emphasis on the individual's responsibility for his own health and consequently for the health of the nation. It attempts to replace ignorance, neglect and indifference, termed the elements of involuntary suicide, with sound knowledge and sensible attitudes. Gains made in the last fifty years by medicine and public health are used to indicate the further strides that could be made in prolonging life if the facts of preventive and therapeutic medicine could be put to work through health education of the public.

The ten leading causes of death are analyzed and methods of outwitting these killers are suggested. The usual course of the various diseases is discussed and "danger signals" noted. Principal attention is given to stressing the importance of early medical treatment and advice when such signs manifest themselves.

The author avoids overemphasis on fear and altogether presents a hopeful picture, in fact