Unit 8 handbooks, manuals, year books, etc. Structure

a) Family Health and First-Aid Handbooks 
There are a number of health guides and first-aid handbooks which serve as very 
useful reference tools for families. They provide information regarding various 
diseases, their symptoms, precautions to be taken, medicines and home remedies, 
instruction regarding first-aid, prevention measures for certain sicknesses etc. 
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook/by 
David Werner. 
California: Hesperian Foundation, 1977. 
(4th Indian edition revised by the Voluntary Health Association of India, New 
Delhi, 1984.) 
Your Guide to Health/by 
C.RAnderson. Poona: Oriental 
Watchman, 1976. 
Listen to Your Body: A Head to Toe Guide to more than 400 Symptoms, Their 
Causes and Best Treatment/by 
Ellen Michaud et.al. Bombay: Rajendra 
Publishing House, 1992. 
Your Guide to Health/by C. R. 
Anderson. Poona Oriental Watchman, 
1976-
b) Home Maintenance Handbooks 
They have wider scope and include information on interior decoration, gardening, 
maintenance of clothes of different materials, various household aspects, their care 
taking and maintenance. They serve as useful guide and companion for housewives: 
Women's Home Companion Household Booked. by Henry Humphrey. New 
York; Colier, 1948. 

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101 things for Housewife To Do : A Practical handbook
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 for the Home/by 
Lillie 
B. and Arthur Hourth. Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1954, 
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Around the House Like Magic/by 
Jean E. Laird. New York : Harper & Row, 
1967.