Handbook for the home on contagious diseases, what they are and how to deal with them. No suggestion that the advice is to take the place of the physician, but rather an insistence on the importance of consulting a physician at the first symptoms and getting proper diagnosis, and of cooperating with public health restrictions regarding contagion. Symptoms, home nursing, preventive care for the rest of the family, after care, and so on and so on Sane, straightforward, thorough and practical.