diseases

Discusses the nervous system and its components and how they function.

Includes guidelines for recognizing foot and leg ailments, internal problems, skin diseases, and injuries and gives instructions for taking temperature, reading a pulse, bandaging, and other useful procedures in both treating and preventing illness in a horse.

Examines injuries and diseases likely to afflict the bones and joints, including breaks, strains, arthritis, and cancer.

Introduces children to the importance of staying healthy; and provides tips on common childhood diseases such as measles and mumps, preparing for the flu season, and recognizing the symptoms of allergies, asthma, and diabetes.

Informative text, photographs, and real-life stories describe life-threatening heart problems and how they are treated and offer tips for heart health.

Describes the basic features of the heart and cardiovascular system, the diseases that may affect them and the science that has evolved to treat heart diseases.

Text and photographs describe heart disease, preventive care, and treatments for heart attacks, strokes, and high blood pressure.

A nearsighted little girl talks about and shows some of the unusual things she saw before being fitted with glasses.

Wilson and Ruth Carter, having spent the past nine months trying to understand why their eleven-year-old daughter Isabelle suddenly quit speaking, are forced to face the possibility that what they initially thought was just an adolescent phase might be a lifelong transformation.