Our health is our most precious asset — and the health of our families is quite properly a major concern. The Funk & Wagnalls New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Family Health has been specially prepared to fill a unique role in this most crucial area. It is a complete and authoritative guide to your family's health, prepared by a team of experts but written in language that is clear, untechnical and straight to the point.

In every volume you will find the answers to the sort of questions you are most likely to ask, so it's really like having your own family doctor permanently on call. Not, of course, that the Funk & Wagnalls New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Family Health is in any sense a substitute for the enormous range of services provided by the medical profession. But doctors tell us that knowledge is the key to preventing ill health — knowledge of how our body works, knowledge of what we should and should not do to keep it in the best possible working order, and, perhaps most important of all, the knowledge that enables us to recognise any illness or disorder in its earliest stages, when medical treatment stands the greatest chance of success.

In more than 900 individual articles, arranged alphabetically for easy reference, our experts give you the inside information — dispelling myths and fallacies and replacing them with hard facts, the facts you need at your fingertips to cope with everyday health care. Each article features a special section giving the 'Doctor's' straightforward answers to the most relevant questions. Each article is fully illustrated in colour with photographs, informative diagrams and charts, to help in getting the subject across quickly, accurately, and above all, in a manner that is easily understood. A fully cross-referenced index closes Volume 23.

Volume 24 contains a quick-reference First Aid Handbook, an extensive glossary of medical terms, a complete listing of articles by volume and a classified listing of articles to help you get the most from this valuable work.