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Title: Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene

Author: Upton Sinclair

Michael Williams

Release date: August 17, 2021 [eBook #66077]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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GOOD HEALTH AND
HOW WE WON IT

Fig. A.Fig. B.
“The Battle of the Blood”
Micro-photograph of leucocytes (white and grayish bodies) in conflict with Germs (black dots and bodies). In Fig. A the germ is that of influenza, in Fig. B that of plague.

GOOD HEALTH
AND HOW WE WON IT

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW HYGIENE

BY
UPTON SINCLAIR
AND
MICHAEL WILLIAMS

WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
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