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Angela Rowling
Health on the Farm(Annotated)
Health on the Farm(Annotated)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I IMPORTANCE OF OUR SUBJECT 3
II CARE OF THE PERSON 12
III SANITATION IN AND ABOUT THE HOUSE 35
IV HYGIENE OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD 63
V PROPER EATING--THE SECRET OF GOOD HEALTH 92
VI BREAD AND ITS RELATIONS 104
VII MEATS, SUGARS AND MILK 117
VIII FOOD-VALUE OF VEGETABLES 130
IX DANGER IN FRUITS AND PICKLES 144
X DRINKS--PROPER AND HARMFUL 148
XI IMPORTANCE OF GOOD COOKING 164
XII SEVEN AVOIDABLE DISEASES 171
XIII HYGIENE OF THE SICK ROOM 217
XIV EMERGENCIES AND ACCIDENTS 223
XV WHAT TO DO WHEN POISONED 251
APPENDIX 273
HEALTH ON THE FARM
CHAPTER I
IMPORTANCE OF OUR SUBJECT
Notwithstanding the extraordinary advances in a material way that have been accomplished in this country within the last few decades, it is a significant and most alarming fact that progress in hygienic matters has lagged far behind. Why this is, it would be very difficult to say,--for the reason that the causes are perhaps many. Chief among these, probably, is the fact that our progress along industrial lines has occupied the entire time of the majority of our best intellects, and it is also in no small degree the consequence of a fatalism that regards disease as a direct visitation of providence and therefore a thing which man may not avoid. Another cause in some instances is the pride of our people in their homes and respective localities, which causes them to repel with indignation the suggestion that any special measures are necessary in order to conserve the public health where they reside. Ignorant as the average man is of the causes that produce sickness and the means by which this result is accomplished, he is naturally not in a position to form a correct judgment concerning such matters, and as a consequence, sees no reasons for taking the precautions that are necessary in order to ward off disease. This ignorance, it must be confessed with sorrow, is in a measure the fault of the medical profession, which has not in the vast majority of instances lived up to its ideals in this connection. Petty and unworthy rivalry has played an extremely important part in this failure of medical men to do their duty in this particular--none of the physicians of a community being, as a rule, willing that others should instruct the public, however vital this might be for the general good. As a consequence, that class of vultures known as medical quacks has furnished to the laity by far the greater proportion of their instruction on hygienic subjects, with the result that the average man has a greater misconception and less real knowledge of such matters than of anything else in which he is vitally interested.
Another, and very curious explanation for our general disregard of the laws of health is that our strong belief in ourselves impels us to think that however much others may suffer from things generally regarded as unhygienic, we, ourselves, will be immune. This belief is fostered by the f
I IMPORTANCE OF OUR SUBJECT 3
II CARE OF THE PERSON 12
III SANITATION IN AND ABOUT THE HOUSE 35
IV HYGIENE OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD 63
V PROPER EATING--THE SECRET OF GOOD HEALTH 92
VI BREAD AND ITS RELATIONS 104
VII MEATS, SUGARS AND MILK 117
VIII FOOD-VALUE OF VEGETABLES 130
IX DANGER IN FRUITS AND PICKLES 144
X DRINKS--PROPER AND HARMFUL 148
XI IMPORTANCE OF GOOD COOKING 164
XII SEVEN AVOIDABLE DISEASES 171
XIII HYGIENE OF THE SICK ROOM 217
XIV EMERGENCIES AND ACCIDENTS 223
XV WHAT TO DO WHEN POISONED 251
APPENDIX 273
HEALTH ON THE FARM
CHAPTER I
IMPORTANCE OF OUR SUBJECT
Notwithstanding the extraordinary advances in a material way that have been accomplished in this country within the last few decades, it is a significant and most alarming fact that progress in hygienic matters has lagged far behind. Why this is, it would be very difficult to say,--for the reason that the causes are perhaps many. Chief among these, probably, is the fact that our progress along industrial lines has occupied the entire time of the majority of our best intellects, and it is also in no small degree the consequence of a fatalism that regards disease as a direct visitation of providence and therefore a thing which man may not avoid. Another cause in some instances is the pride of our people in their homes and respective localities, which causes them to repel with indignation the suggestion that any special measures are necessary in order to conserve the public health where they reside. Ignorant as the average man is of the causes that produce sickness and the means by which this result is accomplished, he is naturally not in a position to form a correct judgment concerning such matters, and as a consequence, sees no reasons for taking the precautions that are necessary in order to ward off disease. This ignorance, it must be confessed with sorrow, is in a measure the fault of the medical profession, which has not in the vast majority of instances lived up to its ideals in this connection. Petty and unworthy rivalry has played an extremely important part in this failure of medical men to do their duty in this particular--none of the physicians of a community being, as a rule, willing that others should instruct the public, however vital this might be for the general good. As a consequence, that class of vultures known as medical quacks has furnished to the laity by far the greater proportion of their instruction on hygienic subjects, with the result that the average man has a greater misconception and less real knowledge of such matters than of anything else in which he is vitally interested.
Another, and very curious explanation for our general disregard of the laws of health is that our strong belief in ourselves impels us to think that however much others may suffer from things generally regarded as unhygienic, we, ourselves, will be immune. This belief is fostered by the f
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