[Printed item for the British Indian Army.] Hints on Health in India and other Tropical Countries. By Major-Gen. Sir J. W. D. Megaw, K.C.I.E., D.Sc., M.B., B.Ch., B.A., I.M.S. (Retired), Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.

28pp., 12mo. Stapled pamphlet. Headings: Factors on which Health and Disease depend; The Maintenance of Fitness; Climate; Clothing; Bed-Clothes; Housing; Exercise; Diet; Alcohol ('After taking a few pegs the diffident and self-conscious person finds himself released from his feelings of inadequacy'); Smoking; Mental Outlook and Brain Work; How to Avoid Disease; The Causes of Disease; Microbic Diseases; The Prevention of Microbic Disease; Alimentary Infections; Cholera; The Prevention of Cholera; Enteric or Typhoid Fever; Dysentery; Rules for the Prevention of Intestinal Infections; Droplet Infections; Diseases Conveyed by Insects [Malaria; Prevention of Malaria; Dengue; Sand-Fly Fever; Relapsing Fever; Bubonic Plague; Kala Azar; Typhus Fever; Microbic Diseases Conveyed by Direct Contact]; Diseases Caused by Larger Parasites [Hook-Worm Disease; Filarial Disease]; Diseases Caused by Deficient Diet; Diseases Caused by Climatic Conditions; Appendicitis; Snake-Bite; Dog-Bite; Bites by Wild Animals; The Care of the Skin; The Toilet of the Teeth; Toilet of the Hair and Scalp; Toilet of the Nose and Throat; The Bed-Bug. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the Wellcome Library, and only two copies located on COPAC and OCLC WorldCat. From an archive of items belonging to Daphne Kayton of the Royal Army Medical Corps.