Would you know what to do if someone in your family accidentally swallowed paint thinner? Or passed out from heat exhaustion? Or suffered a stroke or heart attack?

TheFamily Medical Handbook is a quick, handy reference for these and many other important emergency procedures. Everything from a list of items that should be in every home medicine chest, to first-aid do’s and don’ts are included in this indispensable home resource. Other features include:

• More than 30 pages of charts to help you diagnose common medical problems.
• Simple home treatments to help you and your family fight disease and get well quicker!
• What to do in medical emergencies--and what not to do.

Written by medical doctors in collaboration with 30 specialists, the Family Medical Handbook may be the most important part of your home medicine kit.

For his master of arts degree from University of Southern California in 1939, he had a major in zoology and a psychology minor.

Among the accomplishments Dr. Shryock has achieved are: dean of the Loma Linda division of the School of Medicine (1945), dean of the School of Medicine (1951), chairmanship of the Department of Anatomy of the Schools of Dentistry and Medicine of the College of Medical Evangelists at Loma linda (1957). In 1929 Dr. Shryock married Daisy May Bagwell, a graduate of the St. Helena Sanitarium School of Nursing. They have two children: Patricia Shryock Wallace and Edwin Shryock.

Dr. Shryock's interest are many and varied. Writing is a prime hobby. His choice of subjects reflects his appreciation for his home and children as well as his vital interest in people and their personal problems. The Shryocks have always found their greatest pleasure in their home and their children.

After receiving ministerial and business diplomas from Newbold College, England, Dr. Hardinge came to the U.S. to study medicine. He graduated from the School of Medicine, Loma Linda University (then the College of Medical Evangelists).

In 1943, he was invited to join the faculty of the School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, in the department of anatomy. He continued to teach at the University for the next thirty-seven years, twenty-eight years in medicine and fifteen years in the School of Public Health.

Dr. Hardinge has published more than 50 original scientific papers in peer review journals. He was editor of Life and Health (now Abundant Health) from 1970-1973, and has written more than 200 articles for lay health magazines. Dr. Hardinge has also published a few books: Philosophy of Health; Family Medical Guide (3 volumes); Family Medical Handbook; and one in press - Drugs, Herbs, and Ellen White.

He retired in 1980 (Professor Emeritus; Dean Emeritus), only to be invited to join the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists at their World Headquarters in Washington, DC as the director of the Department of Health and Temperance (1981-1985).

In 1994 Dr. Hardinge and his wife Margaret moved to Brewster, Washington, to be near their children, Fred and Jeanne. They have five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.