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Title: A Handbook of Health

Author: Woods Hutchinson

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THE WOODS HUTCHINSON HEALTH SERIES A HANDBOOK OF
HEALTH BY WOODS HUTCHINSON, A. M., M. D.

Sometime Professor of Anatomy, University of Iowa; Professor of Comparative
Pathology and Methods of Science Teaching, University of Buffalo; Lecturer,
London Medical Graduates' College and University of London;
and State Health Officer of Oregon. Author of "Preventable
Diseases," "Conquest of Consumption,"
"Instinct and Health," etc.

Printer's mark HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON    NEW YORK    CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY WOODS HUTCHINSON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TENTH IMPRESSION

PREFACE

Looking upon the human body from the physical point of view as the most perfect, most ingeniously economical, and most beautiful of living machines, the author has attempted to write a little handbook of practical instruction for the running of it.

And seeing that, like other machines, it derives the whole of its energy from its fuel, the subject of foodsโ€”their properties, uses, and methods of preparationโ€”has been gone into with unusual care. An adequate supply of clean-burning food-fuel for the human engine is so absolutely fundamental both for health and for efficiencyโ€”we are so literally what we have eatenโ€”that to be well fed is in very fact two-thirds of the battle of life from a physiological point of view. The whole discussion is in accord with the aim, kept in view throughout the book, of making its suggestion and advice positive instead of negative, pointing out that, in the language of the old swordsman, "attack is the best defense." If we actively do those things that make for health and efficiency, and which, for the most part, are attractive and agreeable to our natural instincts and unspoiled tastes,โ€”such as exercising in the open air, eating three square meals a day of real food, getting nine or ten hours of undisturbed sleep, taking plenty of fresh air and cold water both inside and out,โ€”this will of itself carry us safely past all the forbidden side paths without the need of so much as a glance at the "Don't" and "Must not" with which it has been the custom to border and fence in the path of right living.

On the other hand, while fully alive to the undesirability, and indeed wickedness, of putting ideas of dread and suffering into children's minds unnecessarily, yet so much of the misery in the world is due to ignorance, and could have been avoided if knowledge of the simplest character had been given at the proper time, that it has been thought best to set forth the facts as to the causation and nature of the commonest diseases, and the methods by which they may be avoided. This is peculiarly necessary from the fact that most of the gravest enemies of mankind have come into existence within a comparatively recent period of the history of life,โ€”only since the beginning of civilization, in fact,โ€”so that we have as yet developed no natural instincts for their avoidance.

Nor do we admit that we are adding anything to the stock of fears in the minds of childrenโ€”the nurse-maid and the bad boys in the next alley have been ahead of us in this respect. The child-mind is too often already filled with fears and superstitions of every sort, passed down from antiquity. Modern sanitarians have been accused of merely substituting one fear for another in the mind of the childโ€”bacilli instead of bogies. But, even if this be true, there are profound and practical differences between the two terrors. One is real, and the other imaginary. A child cannot avoid meeting a bacillus; he will never actually make the acquaintance of a bogie. Children, like savages and ignorant adults, believe and invent and retail among themselves the most extraordinary and grotesque theories about the structure and functions of their bodies, the nature and causation of their illnesses and aches and pains. A plain and straightforward statement of the actual facts about these things not only will not shock or repel them, or make them old before their time, but, on the contrary, will interest them greatly, relieve their minds of many unfounded dreads, and save them from the commonest and most hurtful mistakes of humanityโ€”those that are committed through ignorance.

The Author.

CONTENTS

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1Running the Human Automobile 4Why We Have a Stomach
4What Keeps Us Alive
7The Digestive System
9The Journey down the Food Tube 21The Food-Fuel of the Body-Engine
21What Kind of Food should We Eat?
25The Three Great Classes of Food-Fuel 27The Coal Foods
27Proteins, or "Meats" 40The Coal Foods (Continued)
40Starches
48Sugars 51The Coal Foods (Continued)
51Animal Fats
55Nuts 56Kindling and Paper Foodsโ€”Fruits and Vegetables 62Cooking 69Our Drink
69Filling the Boiler of the Body-Engine
72Where our Drinking Water Comes from
75Causes and Dangers of Polluted Water
81Methods of Obtaining Pure Water
87Home Methods of Purifying Water 89Beverages, Alcohol, and Tobacco
93Alcohol
103Tobacco 108The Heart-Pump and its Pipe-Line System
108The Blood Vessels
115The Heart 120The Care of the Heart-Pump and its Pipe Lines 130How and why We Breathe 139How to Keep the Lung-Bellows in Good Condition
139The Need of Pure Air
152Colds, Consumption, and Pneumonia
156How to Conquer Consumption
165Pneumonia 167The Skin
167Our Wonderful Coat
170The Glands in the Skin
172The Nails
174The Blood-Mesh of the Skin
177The Nerves in the Skin 179How to Keep the Skin Healthy
179Clothing
184Baths and Bathing
188Care of the Nails
189Diseases and Disturbances of the Skin 196The Plumbing and Sewering of the Body 202The Muscles 210The Stiffening Rods of the Body-Machine 216Our Telephone Exchange and its Cables 228The Hygiene of Bones, Nerves, and Muscles
228How to Get and Keep a Good Figure
230Our Feet
232Sleep and Rest
233Disorders of Muscles and Bones
235Troubles of the Nervous System 241Exercise and Growth 252The Lookout Department
253The Nose
257The Tongue
259The Eye
266The Ear
269Our Spirit-Levels 271The Speech Organs 277The Teeth, the Ivory Keepers of the Gate 286Infections, and how to Avoid Them 314Accidents and Emergencies 331Questions and Exercises 343Glossary and Index

ILLUSTRATIONS

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2 To Attempt to Run an Automobile without Knowing how would be Regarded as Foolhardy

6 Where Sun-Power is Made into Food for Us

8 The Food Route in the Digestive System

10 The Salivary Glands

14 A Section of the Lining Surface of the Stomach

15 A Longitudinal Section of Stomach, or Peptic, Glands

23 A Cheap Home-Made Ice Box

30 A Baby-Milk Station

33 Clean, Dry Sunning Yards at a Model Dairy

34 Cleanliness before Milking

35 The Milking Hour at a Model Dairy

36 Milking by Vacuum Process

37 Washing the Bottles at a Model Dairy

38 Bacteria in Clean and in Dirty Milk

38 Danger from Dipped Milk

39 Milk Inspection at the Retail Store

44 A Thorough Baking, and a Valuable Crust

45 An Ideal Bakery with Light, Air, and Cleanliness

46 A Basement Bakeryโ€”A Menace to the Public Health

50 Candy, Like Other Foods, Should be Clean

54 A Small Store, Cleanly and Honest

61 The Joy of his Own Garden Patch

63 The Kitchen should be Cared for as One of the Most Important Rooms in the House

66 A Knowledge of Cooking is a Valuable Part of a Good Education

67 Boys, as well as Girls, should Know how to Cook

71 The Chained Cup

72 The Spouting Fountain

74 Nature's Filter-Bed

76 An Example of Good Farm Drainage

78 The Danger Spot on the Farm

80 Typhoid Epidemic in the Mohawk-Hudson Valley

82 Artesian Well Borings

84 A City Water Supply Brought from the Far Hills

86 A Reservoir and Costly Dam

87 Scraping the Sediment from the Bottom of a Reservoir

88 The Domestic Filter in Use

92 A Milk Station in a City Park

95 Proportion of Alcohol in Light Wine, in Beer, in Whiskey

105 A Board of Health Examination for Working Papers

106 A Test of Clear Head and Steady Nerves

109 Blood Corpuscles

112 Surface Veins and Deep-Lying Arteries of Inner Side of Right Arm and Hand

114 Diagram of Artery, Capillaries, and Vein

116 The Exterior of the Heart

117 Diagram of Valves in the Veins and Heart

118 The Blood-Route trought the Heart

121 The School Physician Examining Heart and Lungs

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