A Handbook of Health - Softcover

Hutchinson, M. D., Woods

Softcover

ISBN 10: 151161563X ISBN 13: 9781511615631

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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Reseña del editor:

“Any book which Dr. Woods Hutchinson writes is apt to be interesting and instructive. The neat and compact volume before us – Book Two of the ‘Woods Hutchinson Health Series’ – possesses both these desirable qualities. It is intended for young readers whose attention it will hold by its picturesque language....’While fully alive,’ says the author, ‘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.’ Unlike most books of the kind it is free from exaggeration and meddlesome advice.” -Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, Volume 28, 1912

“In 27 chapters Dr. Hutchinson takes up the different parts of the body and of the things that go to make our bodies and discusses them in the characteristic style that makes his books so Not the least of its good features is the gripping interest that characterizes it. ‘Better than a story book,’ one can almost hear the pupils say.” -The Journal of Education. CONTENTS Running the Human Automobile Why We Have a Stomach What Keeps Us Alive The Digestive System The Journey down the Food Tube The Food-Fuel of the Body-Engine What Kind of Food should We Eat? The Three Great Classes of Food-Fuel The Coal Foods Proteins, or "Meats" The Coal Foods (Continued) Starches Sugars The Coal Foods (Continued) Animal Fats Nuts Kindling and Paper Foods—Fruits and Vegetables Cooking Our Drink Filling the Boiler of the Body-Engine Where our Drinking Water Comes from Causes and Dangers of Polluted Water Methods of Obtaining Pure Water Home Methods of Purifying Water Beverages, Alcohol, and Tobacco Alcohol Tobacco The Heart-Pump and its Pipe-Line System The Blood Vessels The Heart The Care of the Heart-Pump and its Pipe Lines How and why We Breathe How to Keep the Lung-Bellows in Good Condition The Need of Pure Air Colds, Consumption, and Pneumonia How to Conquer Consumption Pneumonia The Skin Our Wonderful Coat The Glands in the Skin The Nails The Blood-Mesh of the Skin The Nerves in the Skin How to Keep the Skin Healthy Clothing Baths and Bathing Care of the Nails Diseases and Disturbances of the Skin The Plumbing and Sewering of the Body The Muscles The Stiffening Rods of the Body-Machine Our Telephone Exchange and its Cables The Hygiene of Bones, Nerves, and Muscles How to Get and Keep a Good Figure Our Feet Sleep and Rest Disorders of Muscles and Bones Troubles of the Nervous System Exercise and Growth The Lookout Department The Nose The Tongue The Eye The Ear Our Spirit-Levels The Speech Organs The Teeth, the Ivory Keepers of the Gate Infections, and how to Avoid Them Accidents and Emergencies Questions and Exercises Glossary

Biografía del autor:

Woods Hutchinson was an English physician, born at Selby, Yorkshire, England. He graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1880 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan four years later. (Wikipedia)

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 151161563X
• ISBN 13: 9781511615631
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 362