health: How to Live(Annotated)

CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER I
AIR
SECTION 1. HOUSING 7 2. CLOTHING 14 3. OUTDOOR LIVING 18 4. OUTDOOR SLEEPING 20 5. DEEP BREATHING 24
CHAPTER II
FOOD
1. QUANTITY OF FOOD 28 2. PROTEIN FOODS 35 3. HARD, BULKY, AND UNCOOKED FOODS 40 4. THOROUGH MASTICATION 44
CHAPTER III
POISONS
1. CONSTIPATION 51 2. POSTURE 57 3. POISONS FROM WITHOUT 64 4. TEETH AND GUMS 78
CHAPTER IV
ACTIVITY
1. WORK, PLAY, REST AND SLEEP 89 2. SERENITY AND POISE 105
CHAPTER V
HYGIENE IN GENERAL
1. THE FIFTEEN RULES OF HYGIENE 119 2. THE UNITY OF HYGIENE 121 3. THE OBSTACLES TO HYGIENE 126 4. THE POSSIBILITIES OF HYGIENE 135 5. HYGIENE AND CIVILIZATION 143 6. THE FIELDS OF HYGIENE 157
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON SPECIAL SUBJECTS
1. NOTES ON FOOD 171 2. NOTES ON OVERWEIGHT AND UNDERWEIGHT 212 3. NOTES ON POSTURE 221 4. NOTES ON ALCOHOL 227 5. NOTES ON TOBACCO 250 6. AVOIDING COLDS 272 7. SIGNS OF INCREASE OF THE DEGENERATIVE DISEASES 281 8. COMPARISON OF DEGENERATIVE TENDENCIES AMONG NATIONS 286 9. EUGENICS 293
INDEX 325

HYGIENE REFERENCE BOARD
OF THE LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE, Inc.
IRVING FISHER, Chairman
Professor of Political Economy Yale University
#Statistics#
WILLIAM J. HARRIS, Federal Trade Commission, United States Government.
CRESSY L. WILBUR, M.D., Director, Division of Vital Statistics, Dept. of Health, State of New York.
WALTER F. WILLCOX, Professor of Economics and Statistics, Cornell University.
#Public Health Administration#
HERMANN M. BIGGS, M.D., Commissioner of Health, State of New York.
RUPERT BLUE, M.D., Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service.
H. M. BRACKEN, M.D., Secretary Board of Health, State of Minnesota.
J. B. GREGG CUSTIS, President Board of Medical Supervisors, District of Columbia.
SAMUEL G. DIXON, M.D., Commissioner of Health, State of Pennsylvania.
OSCAR DOWLING, M.D., President Board of Health, State of Louisiana.
JOHN S. FULTON, M.D., Secretary Dept. of Health, State of Maryland.
S. S. GOLDWATER, M.D., Supt., Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York.
WILLIAM C. GORGAS, Major General U. S. Army.
CALVIN W. HENDRICK, Chief Engineer, Sewerage Commission of Baltimore.
J. N. HURTY, M.D., Secretary Board of Health, State of Indiana.
W. S. RANKIN, M.D., Secretary and Treasurer, Board of Health, State of North Carolina.
THEO. B. SACHS, M.D., President The Chicago Tuberculosis Institute.
JOSEPH W. SCHERESCHEWSKY, M.D., U. S. Public Health Service.
GUILFORD H. SUMNER, M.D., Secretary--Executive Officer, Dept. of Health and Medical Examiners, State of Iowa.
GEORGE C. WHIPPLE, Professor Sanitary Engineering, Harvard University.
C. E. A. WINSLOW, Professor of Public Health, Yale Medical School.
#Medicine and Surgery#
LEWELLYS F. BARKER, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
GEORGE BLUMER, M.D., Dean Tale Medical School.
GEORGE W. CRILE, M.D., Professor Clinical Surgery, Western Reserve University.
DAVID L. EDSALL, M.D., Professor Clinical Medicine, Harvard University.
HENRY, B. FAVILL, M.D., Professor Clinical Medicine, Rush Medical College.
J. H. KELLOGG, M.D., Superintendent Battle Creek Sanitarium.
S. ADOLPHUS KNOPF, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Phthisiotherapy, New York Post Graduate Medical School.
WILLIAM J. MAYO, M.D., Ex-President American Medical Association.
VICTOR C. VAUGHAN, M.D., Dean, Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, University of Michigan, Ex-President American Medical Association.
HUGH HAMPTON YOUNG, M.D., Assoc. Professor of Urological Surgery, Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.
#Chemistry, Bacteriology, Pathology, Physiology, Biology#
JOHN F. ANDERSON, M.D., Director Hygienic Laboratory, United States Government.
HENRY G. BEYER, M.D., Medical Director, U. S. Navy.
WALTER B. CANNON, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Harvard University.
RUSSELL H. CHITTENDEN, Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Director Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University.
OTTO FOLIN, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School.
M. E. JAFFA, M.S., Professor of Nutrition, University of California.
LAFAYETTE B. MENDEL, Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University.
RICHARD M. PEARCE, M.D., Professor of Research Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
MAZYCK P. RAVENEL, M.D., Director Laboratory of Hygiene, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Bacteriology, University of Missouri.
LEO P. RETTGER, Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University.
M. J. ROSENAU, M.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
WILLIAM T. SEDGWICK, Professor of Biology and Public Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
HENRY C. SHERMAN, Professor of Food Chemistry, Columbia University.
THEOBALD SMITH, M.D., Director Division of Anima