{"product_id":"2008782","title":"Drinking-Water and Ice Supplies and Their Relations to Health and Disease","description":"[viii], 148, [2] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 6 illustrations. A guide to obtaining clean drinking water, with sections on water purification and artificial ice (i.e., manufactured ice). This was likely in reaction to a number of cholera epidemics in the 19th century, the cause of which was eventually found to be linked to impure water supplies (the index of this volume mentions cholera twice). Hoolihan 2886: \"... intended to inform 'the householder how wholesome water may be obtained both in town and country.' and how through attention to domestic water supplies 'prevention is possible in many serious diseases, which have been always and abundantly with us, because we have not known until now just what caused them and how to curtail their spread'. The first edition... was published by Putnam in 1891. This 2nd edition was reissued in 1907.\"\r\n","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12595197050950,"sku":"2008782","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2008782.jpg?v=1571421381","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/2008782","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}