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.