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CHAPTER 1 Nothing to sneeze at Making sure a cold is only a cold Who catches colds and when First line of defense: the nose A variety of viruses, all hostile How the infection takes hold Throat sore? Head feel stuffy and dull? Nose running like a leaky faucet and you feel a chill down to your...

1A 3,000-inile waterway west "A great spiral staircase to the Rockies" was one 19th Century traveler's memorable metaphor for the Missouri, whose tortuous bends led canoeists, keelboaters and eventually steamboat-men from the Mississippi all the way to Fort Benton, Montana —nearly half a mile...

"What a head have I!" Warning: a body out of balance From a hole in the head to an aspirin pill Tracking the causes to nerves and arteries The headaches of everyday life Aches that can kill Real pains that are only in the mind "Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I! It beats as it...

CHAPTER 1 Off the table and into the body What the stomach does The man with a lid on his stomach Why you need a liver Capturing the most nnportant mgredient: water A colony of busy, benign bacteria To the rescue: new drugs, new instruments Imagine the discomfort of poor Mr. Polly. The...

CHAPTER 1 The great plague of the 20th Century A pump to fill the Astrodome When the plumbing breaks down Waxing and waning of a world epidemic The heart specialists' wizardry There is good news about the heart and blood vessels. Their afflietions are coming under control. In much of the...

CHAPTER 1 A curious arrangement for living upright New ways to fix the frame A divinely built mansion Building strength into the structure The Importance of food Joints for a lifetime of flexibility Matched muscles for every movement Imagine a somewhat rubbery, irregularly shaped...