Miss Thompson has won an enviable reputation in Domestic Science work.  She has avoided all of the quackery, self-exploitation and money schemes, which have proved a temptation to many in the work, and which have tended to brand the science as an advertising scheme, and confined herself to study, teaching and the legitimate development of the science.  Her work in the Normal and in giving lectures on Domestic Science brings her in touch with large numbers of intelligent and practical women who realize that housekeeping and cookery must be reduced to a science.  Luxuries of fifty years ago are necessities today.  The increase in the cost of living without a corresponding advance in wages has made it imperative that method and system he installed in the home.

Domestic Science is still in the embryo, but let us hope it will, in a measure at least, prove a panacea for modern domestic ills and receive the encouragement and speedy endorsement that it deserves.

TABLE OF CONTENTS [vii]

Beginning on Page
medical department                               1
Mother’s Diagnosis                            1
Respiratory Diseases                          6
Animal Parasites, Diseases Caused by         44
Skin, Diseases of                            52
Digestive Organs, Diseases of                97
Kidney and Bladder, Diseases of             152
Infectious Diseases                         166
Blood and Ductless Glands, Diseases of      249
Nervous System, Diseases of                 261
Constitutional Diseases                     314
Circulatory System, Diseases of             337
Eye and Ear, Diseases of                    346
Deformities                                 369
Intoxicants and Sunstrokes                  371
Accidents, Emergencies and Poisons          376
Herb Department                             408
Homeopathy                                  448
Patent Medicines and Secret Formula,        465

Woman’s Department
   Diseases of Women 489
   Obstetrics or Midwifery 515
   All About Baby 544
   Nursing Department 623
   Schools of Medicine, Leading 669
   Operations 662
   Hot Springs of Arkansas 666
   Common Household Articles, Medical Uses of 668
   Mothers’ Remedies, Unclassified 674