A Handbook of Health
By addebook • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Medicine •
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A Handbook of Health
by A. M., M. D. WOODS HUTCHINSON
A Handbook of Health
By A. M., M. D. WOODS HUTCHINSON
Publisher: Celtic Giraffe Books
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2008-07-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: B001D8Z8KA
ISBN-13 / EAN:
Binding: Kindle Edition
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 foods–their properties, uses, and methods
of preparation–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 efficiency–we are so literally what
we have eaten–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,–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,–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,–only since the beginning of civilization, in
fact,–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 children–the nurse-maid and the bad boys in the next alley…
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