How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science

Name: How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
Author: Fisher, Irving

Fisher, Irving

Hygiene

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.

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How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science

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