When the Better Homes and Gardens Family Medical Guide was first published in the 1960s, tuberculosis was the major cause of illness and death. Children routinely endured the discomforts of measles and mumps, and heart disease was rampant. At the same time, it was the age of medical miracles. In the most dramatic example, polio vaccine in a single stroke had virtually eradicated one of the most feared of all diseases. Health-conscious Americans needed a reliable and authoritative guide through the maze of old problems and new solutions.The eminent science writer and editor Donald G. Cooley, enlisted a nationally recognized corps of medical specialists from prominent hospitals and universities to provide it. Specially commissioned art work was researched and executed by the distinguished medical illustrator, Paul Zuckerman. The contributors to the Better Homes and Gardens Family Medical Guide were assigned one simple objective: to explain in lucid, everyday terms and with clear illustra
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