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CHAPTER II
WHY WE HAVE A STOMACH
WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE
The Energy in Food and Fuel. The first question that arises in our mind on looking at an engine or machine of any sort is, What makes it go? If we can succeed in getting an answer to the question, What makes the human automobile go? we shall have the key to half its secrets at once. It is fuel, of course; but what kind of fuel? How does the body take it in, how does it burn it, and how does it use the energy or power stored up in it to run the body-engine?
Man is a bread-and-butter-motor. The fuel of the automobile is gasoline, and the fuel of the man-motor we call food. The two kinds of fuel do not taste or smell much alike; but they are alike in that they both have what we call energy, or power, stored up
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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.
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY WOODS HUTCHINSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TENTH IMPRESSION
PREFACELooking 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 foodsโtheir properties, uses, and methods of preparationโhas 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 efficiencyโwe are so literally what we have eatenโthat 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,โsuch 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,โthis 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,โonly since the beginning of civilization, in fact,โso 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 childrenโthe 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 childโbacilli 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 humanityโthose that are committed through ignorance.
The Author.
CONTENTSPAGE
1Running the Human Automobile 4Why We Have a StomachPAGE
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 BakeryโA 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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