[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]
The author wishes to express his sincere appreciation of the valuable assistance rendered in the preparation of this work by Dr. S. T. Armstrong, of New York City; Dr. H. Wheeler Bond, Commissioner of Health, St. Louis, Missouri; Dr. H. M. Bracken, Secretary and Executive Officer of the State Board of Health of Minnesota; J. S. Caldwell, Professor of Biology, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee; R. J. Condon, Superintendent of Schools, Providence, Rhode Island; Mrs. Nona B. Eddy, of the Public Schools of Helena, Montana; Dr. F. M. McMurray, of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City; Miss Jessie B. Montgomery, Supervising Critic in Training School, State Normal School, Terre Haute, Indiana; Dr. E. A. Pierce, Secretary and Executive Officer of the State Board of Health of Oregon.
[CONTENTS]
| PART I—THE FIGHT FOR HEALTH | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Constant Danger of Illness | [1] |
| II. | The Necessity of Caring for the Body | [4] |
| III. | How Clothing Affects Health | [9] |
| IV. | The Uses of Food | [14] |
| V. | Care of Food—Meats | [18] |
| VI. | Care of Food—Milk | [22] |
| VII. | Decomposition of Food | [30] |
| VIII. | Harm Done by Improper Cooking | [34] |
| IX. | How Neatness, Cheerfulness, and Good Manners Promote Health | [37] |
| X. | Dangers from Poor Teeth | [41] |
| XI. | Necessity for Pure Air and how to Secure it | [45] |
| XII. | Rest Essential to Health | [51] |
| XIII. | Care of the Eye and Ear | [56] |
| XIV. | Care of the Skin | [60] |
| XV. | Common Poisons to be Avoided | [64] |
| PART II—THE ENEMIES OF HEALTH | ||
| XVI. | Disease Germs | [73] |
| XVII. | Encouragement of Disease by Uncleanly Habits | [75] |
| XVIII. | Flies as Carriers of Disease | [79] |
| XIX. | How Disease Germs get into Water | [85] |
| XX. | Transmission of Disease through the Air | [89] |
| XXI. | Insects as Carriers of Disease | [92] |
| XXII. | How to Keep Germs out of Wounds | [95] |
| XXIII. | Transmission of Diphtheria | [100] |
| XXIV. | The Cure of Diphtheria | [108] |
| XXV. | How Typhoid Fever Germs are Carried | [113] |
| XXVI. | Hookworm Disease and Amoebic Dysentery | [120] |
| XXVII. | How Scarlet Fever is Carried | [123] |
| XXVIII. | Measles and Whooping Cough Dangerous Diseases | [128] |
| XXIX. | How Smallpox is Prevented | [131] |
| XXX. | Why Vaccination Sometimes seems a Failure | [138] |
| XXXI. | Consumption, the Great White Plague | [142] |
| XXXII. | How Consumption is Spread and how Prevented | [150] |
| XXXIII. | How Consumption is Cured | [157] |
| Appendix—Summary of Anatomy | [163] | |
| Suggestions to the Teacher | [182] | |
| Index | [183] | |