With volume 5 of Family Medical Care comes to a conclusion. An essential part of the Family Lifestyle Series, it examines through understandable text and vivid illustrations the body's amazing sense organs, its bony framework and what you can do to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Covering Eye: disorders of the eyelids and tear apparatus, disorders of the conjunctiva and cornea, lens implants, contact lenses, glaucoma. Ear, Nose and Throat: middle-ear infections, deafness and hearing aids, the bionic ear, colds and sinusitis, throat disorders.

Skin: cold sores, skin infections, acne, sunburn, ringworm and thrush, skin cancers, plastic surgery, hair challenges and baldness.

Joints and Bones: the skeleton, bursitis, treating rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile arthritis, exercises for arthritis, osteoarthritis and spondylitis, baker's cyst, gout, osteoporosis and rickets, Paget's disease, osteomyelitis, bone tumours.

Home Therapy and Healthful Living: Fresh air, exercise, sleep, water, sunshine, healthy eating, vitamins and minerals, 10 ways to get a good sleep, hydrotherapy and massage, hot and cold packs, signs of cancer and the value of early diagnosis, overweight and how to reduce, underweight, eating disorders, the elderly and their need for activity.