How Can We Keep Healthy?- the best answer to that question is, to be the child of healthy parents income from a sturdy stock.  The nurse at the mother's breast and raise outdoors in the sunshine and fresh air, to sleep at plenty of air in the room at night.  To have a natural movement of the files once a day.  And through childhood to receive three meals a day consisting of pure wholesome food, plenty of milk, free from germs, pure water and sleep from 10 to 12 hours a night throughout childhood, depending on the age.  To play into work which will be in the air and develop the muscles gradually.  Every child should be vaccinated anytime after the six-month and repeat at the seventh year, to be done at once, in addition during an epidemic of smallpox.  It is not necessary or write for a child to have scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, etc., as so many people think.  They are often followed by deafness, heart disease, nervous diseases and paralysis which nature never meant to inflict a child with to go through life.

Children's teeth, eyes and throat should be examined at intervals and many defects corrected.  The tonsils and adenoids (growths would stop up the nose and prevent air being breathed properly) should be removed.  Enlarged tonsils often cause deafness by preventing air from the throat reaching the ear cavity due to stopping the opening of the Eustachian tube which leads from the throat to the ear.

Children should not be taught to many branches at school.  Every school should be well lighted with plenty of fresh air.  Many of the smaller schools are now being built on open ropes of buildings in large cities or in platforms placed out of doors with just a roof overhead to protect the children.  All schools should be held in the open where possible.  There is absolutely no chance of cold that the children are warmly dressed in experiments are proven that the children are healthier, more attentive and mentally deficient where they had been in school in the open air.

This kicks off an interesting theme that I have seen throughout this section of the book as I took a sneak peak into things.  Its the concept that fresh air all by itself is important to health.  Now, I suspect that the real benefit to good health is actually the absence of pollution, which was a real problem even 100 years ago with coal soot and other contributors of new industrial run off problems.  If we could time travel, I think one of the interesting things we'd discover if we could send people back to large and small cities armed with digital cameras is that pollution was likely very rampant 100 years ago.  This was very likely a significant health problem.

That said, keeping people outside in the fresh air just for the sake of being outside in the fresh air regardless of the temperature is approximately where the science runs into pseudoscience and misunderstanding.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• The Kidneys
  
  

  The Kidneys.– The kidneys are two glandular bodies, having for their functions the secretion of urine.  The form of the kidney resembles a French bean; its average length team from four to four and a half inches, two inches in breadth and one in thickness.  The two kidneys are situated one on each side of the spine and the lumbar region, opposite the last two dorsal and two first lumbar vertebrae; they are a brownish-read color flattened from before word, and grooved on the anterior border for the reception of the great vessels.

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  I do not know what a French bean looks like, but I suspect people to read the book 100 years ago probably did.  I suppose this is some sort of reference point is lost its way over the years even though I’m sure there are a few people that knows what this still is.  This book was written to be a common reference for the everyday person hundred years ago, but it probably would not connect home with everyday people in the current century.  There are a number of ways to look at this, but it is important to remember that a reference that can be understood is very important when you’re trying to help somebody possibly save their life or prevent further injury, if you give a reference to medical supplies describing what they look like and where they should be located, but the person that you tell doesn’t understand what you’re saying it could be the difference between life and death.  That said, this is more of an anatomy lesson and it is doubtful that the average person really needed to know what the kidneys look like in a human person.  This was probably more beneficial for a person that might actually consider studying it as an in depth later on down the road.

• Walls of the Abdomen
  
  

  Walls of the Abdomen.  — The muscular walls of the abdomen are nicely arranged and beautifully adapted to the functions they perform.  On the left side we see the large oblique muscle, so named because of the direction it’s fibres run, and on the right side we observe the rectus muscle, transverse muscle and internal oblique muscle, all of which are strong, broad muscles, will split manner in which they are so scientifically arranged gives additional string to the abdominal walls, without deteriorating from its great mobility, and at the same time avoiding all pressure of the organs contained within this large cavity.  There are ninety-one muscles on each side of the trunk, or one hundred and eighty-two in all, ninety of which are pairs, and two are single.

  I noted a slight difference in spelling for the word “fibres” in the section.  I’m not certain if this is a medical spelling or if it’s just a difference in spelling that’s evolved over the last 90 years.  In addition the section also has a reference again to the beauty and perfection of design which doesn’t overdo it too much in this particular paragraph but given the history of the book so far seems to have more of a enthralled tone than you might expect.

• Ventricles of the Heart
  
  

  Ventricles of the Heart. — the walls of the left ventricle, which propels the blood to the remotest corners of the human frame, are correspondingly thicker and stronger than those of the right, which forces the blood to the lungs only. Arising from the right ventricle is seeing the blue pulmonary artery, conveying its foul, poisonous, vitiated and venous stream to the lungs, well from the left ventricle is observed a large main artery of the circulatory system — the aorta — from the arch of which arise the right and left carotid arteries.

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  So in the section they jump back into describing parts of the heart as foul and poisonous? There definitely seems to be a lack of knowledge or understanding of what’s going on here, I’m no medical professional bottom of aspirin in about five minutes when the world people might have thought that the ventricles of a heart deliver poisonous blood to the lungs? Seems absurd.

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