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:
- Today’s Medical Assistant – Last Centuries Family Member Care Giver
A hundred years ago, the Book of Medicine would have helped to guided anyone in the household capable of reading in the arts of care giving, preventive maintenance and even healing. Today, every facet of the medical world has a specialization level associated with it from the level of medical assistant to general practice doctors to surgeons.
These days it also takes a lot more effort. There are medical assistant school options that provide medical assistant training in courses that can be completed in less than a few months for under a thousand dollars.
The Book of Medicine was written to provide the general tools that your average person might be confronted with in a health emergency or even to prevent one. Times have changed significantly and the opportunities to help people in many ways have become greater in number and easier to grab.
- Water in All Substances
Water in All Substances.—Water was considered by the ancient philosophers as one of the four elements out of which all visible objects were constructed ; and, in reality, it enters to a greater or less extent into the composition of nearly all natural substances. Thus, for example, some vegetables, like cabbage or celery, contain as much as ninety-five per cent. of water ; and, on the other hand, close-grained marble may contain as much as four per cent. of water, or almost a quart to the cubic yard. On account of its remarkable solvent powers, which enable it to take up a smaller or larger quantity of nearly every substance with which it comes in contact, water is never found pure in a natural state; and, indeed, absolutely pure water for chemical purposes can only be obtained by repeated careful distillations.
Its hard to imagine that for your every day person, the concept that liquids were often comprised of water as opposed to be a completely different substance all together was relatively new. People may have suspected, but many scientists had not confirmed (or reconfirmed) this fact and they were just beginning to put together the concept of atoms and how they might form together. So for some people this apparently obvious paragraph today might have been as foreign if not more to them as a digital cameras function might have been 50 or 100 years ago.
- Air and Gases in Water
Separating substances from liquids a hundred years ago was still a novel chore and not even as easy as a car insurance comparison is today.
Air and Gases in Water.-A considerable amount of air generally exists in water, and is taken up by the gills of fishes, assisting them to accomplish the proper aeration, or rather oxygenation, of their blood. The air usually mingled with water may be expelled by boiling, but is absorbed again if the boiled water is agitated with access of the atmosphere.
Now, that particular segment doesn’t make a great deal of sense in the grand sense of things, but it would appear that the author is trying to talk about the purification or the impurities that can be found or removed from water.
