CONTENTS
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1Running the Human Automobile
4Why We Have a Stomach 4What Keeps Us Alive 7The Digestive System 9The Journey down the Food Tube
21The Food-Fuel of the Body-Engine 21What Kind of Food should We Eat? 25The Three Great Classes of Food-Fuel
27The Coal Foods 27Proteins, or "Meats"
40The Coal Foods (Continued) 40Starches 48Sugars
51The Coal Foods (Continued) 51Animal Fats 55Nuts
56Kindling and Paper Foods—Fruits and Vegetables
62Cooking
69Our Drink 69Filling the Boiler of the Body-Engine 72Where our Drinking Water Comes from 75Causes and Dangers of Polluted Water 81Methods of Obtaining Pure Water 87Home Methods of Purifying Water
89Beverages, Alcohol, and Tobacco 93Alcohol 103Tobacco
108The Heart-Pump and its Pipe-Line System 108The Blood Vessels 115The Heart
120The Care of the Heart-Pump and its Pipe Lines
130How and why We Breathe
139How to Keep the Lung-Bellows in Good Condition 139The Need of Pure Air 152Colds, Consumption, and Pneumonia 156How to Conquer Consumption 165Pneumonia
167The Skin 167Our Wonderful Coat 170The Glands in the Skin 172The Nails 174The Blood-Mesh of the Skin 177The Nerves in the Skin
179How to Keep the Skin Healthy 179Clothing 184Baths and Bathing 188Care of the Nails 189Diseases and Disturbances of the Skin
196The Plumbing and Sewering of the Body
202The Muscles
210The Stiffening Rods of the Body-Machine
216Our Telephone Exchange and its Cables
228The Hygiene of Bones, Nerves, and Muscles 228How to Get and Keep a Good Figure 230Our Feet 232Sleep and Rest 233Disorders of Muscles and Bones 235Troubles of the Nervous System
241Exercise and Growth
252The Lookout Department 253The Nose 257The Tongue 259The Eye 266The Ear 269Our Spirit-Levels
271The Speech Organs
277The Teeth, the Ivory Keepers of the Gate
286Infections, and how to Avoid Them
314Accidents and Emergencies 331Questions and Exercises 343Glossary and Index