Health Lessons

onservation of health. The seven hundred thousand lives annually destroyed by infectious diseases and the million other serious cases of sickness from contagious maladies, with all their at, tendant suffering, are largely sacrifices on the altar of ignorance. The loving mother menaces the life of her babe by feeding it milk with a germ content nearly half as great as that of sewage, the anemic girl sleeps with fast-closed windows, wondering in the morning why she feels so lifeless, and the one-time vigorous boy goes to a consumptives early grave, because they did not know what every school ought to teach the way to health. Doctor Price, the Secretary of the State Board of Health of Maryland, recently said before the American Public Health Association that the text-books of our schools show zt marked disregard for the urgent problems which enter our daily life, such as the prevention of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and acute infectious diseases. Since the observing public have seen educated conimunities decrease their death rate from typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and diphtheria frorn one third to three fourths by heeding the healtli call lawmakers are becoining convinced that the needless waste of human life should be stopped. Michigan has already decreed that every scllool child shall be taught the cause and prevention of the communicable diseases, and several other states are contemplating like action. This book meets fully the demands of all such laws as are contemplatecl, and presents the important truths not by dogmatic assertion, but by citing specific facts appealing to the child mind in such , z way as to make n lasting impression. After the eleventh year of age, the first cause of death among school children is tuberculosis. The, chief aim of the author has been to show the child the sure way of preventing this disease and others of like nature, and to establish an undying faith in the motto of Pasteur, It is within the power of man to rid himself of every parasitic disease. Nearly all of the illustrations used are from photographs and drawings specially prepared for this book. These, together with the large amount of material gleaned from original sources and from the authors experiments in the laboratory, will, it is hoped, make this little volume worthy of the same generous welcome accorded the two earlier books of this series, CONTENTS II. PARTS OF THE BODY . . 111. FEEDISG TH E BODY . IV. FOOD A SD IEALTII . V. How PLASTSs o u n OK SPOIL FOOD . VI. MILK n r s y RE A FOOD OR A POISON . VII. How TIIE BODY USES FOOD . VIII. TIIE CARE OF THE IOUT . II IX. ALCOHOLIC D RISKS . X. ALCOHOL AS D HEALTH . XI. TOBACCO AN D THE. DRUGS W HICH INJURE THE HEALTH . XII. THE SKIN ASD BATHISG . XIII. CLOTHIXG A SD HOW TO USE IT . XIV. BREATHIXG . xv. FRESI A I IR ASD HEALTH . XVI. THE BLOOD ASD HO V IT FLOWS TIIROUGH THE BODY X V I I . IXSECT A S N D HEALTH . 7 8 CONTENTS OHAPTEB PAGE XVIII. How THE BODY MOVES . . . . . 135 XIX. THEM USCLE A S N D HEALTH . . 144 XX. How THE BODY I S GOVERNED . 149 XXI... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.