Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1966Vol. 37, No. 2

If You Must Have

p. 99 · Read in the full issue

Page 9999

One-Learn To

Live With It

Learn how to live with your coronary if you cannot avoid having one. That is the message of "Heart Disease and Common Sense", by Reg Townley. For the price of the book — 17/6 —the advice seems to be a bargain.

Mr. Townley is a chemist not a doctor; he is also a member of Tasmania's State Parliament and the radio spokesman for Australian phar macists. During World War I he was Assistant Director-General of Medical Services.

But perhaps his best qualification for writing about his subject is that six years ago he suffered a bad coronary occlusion.

His book is in non-technical language and is reassuring for any one who has had or is threatened with one of the prevalent diseases of middle-age and modern living.

(Heart Disease And Common

SENSE. Angus and Robertson. 17/6. >

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