Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene

by Upton Sinclair; Michael Williams

BY
UPTON SINCLAIR
AND
MICHAEL WILLIAMS

WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1909,
By FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER	PAGE
	[Introduction]	1
[I.]	The Battle of the Blood	21
[II.]	How to Eat: The Gospel of Dietetics According to Horace Fletcher	41
[III.]	The Yale Experiments	69
[IV.]	How Digestion Is Accomplished	95
[V.]	How Foods Poison the Body	113
[VI.]	Some Important Food Facts	127
[VII.]	How Often Should We Eat	145
[VIII.]	Health and the Mind	159
[IX.]	The Case as to Meat	173
[X.]	The Case Against Stimulants	193
[XI.]	Diet Reform in the Family	203
[XII.]	Breathing and Exercise	219
[XIII.]	Bathing and Cleanliness	239
[XIV.]	A University of Health	258
[XV.]	Health Reform and the Committee of One Hundred	274
	[Appendix]	287

ILLUSTRATIONS

“The Battle of the Blood”	[Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
[Mr. Upton Sinclair and Mr. Michael Williams]	16
[Mr. Horace Fletcher]	42
[Mr. Horace Fletcher Making a World’s Record]	52
[Professor Russell H. Chittenden, Ph. D., LL.D., Sc. D.]	70
[Professor Irving Fisher, Ph. D.]	82
[Mr. John E. Granger] Breaking the World’s Record for Deep-Knee Bending	88
[M. Elie Metchnikoff]	114
[Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, Ph. D.]	138
[Mr. Upton Sinclair’s Children]	146
[Mr. Sinclair’s Children]	176
[The Daily Swim]	206
[Fresh Air in Bermuda]	220
[Outdoor Exercise]	236
[Dr. J. H. Kellogg]	2580
[A Group at the Battle Creek Sanitarium]	27

INTRODUCTION
BY UPTON SINCLAIR

Ten years ago, when I was a student at college, I fell a victim to a new and fashionable ailment called “la grippe.” I recollect the date very well, because it was the first time I had been sick in fourteen years—the last difficulty having been the whooping-cough.