Volume V
Reading edition
Lesson XVI
Adapting Food to Special Conditions1145
Infant, Old Age, and Athletic Feeding; Sedentary Occupations, Climatic Extremes 1147
Normal Diet1152
Infant Feeding1154
General Rules for the Prospective Mother1157
Special Rules for the Prospective Mother1159
The Nursing Mother1162
Care of the Child1164
Constipation1169
Exercise1171
Clothing1171
Temperature of Baby's Food1173
Bandage1173
Emaciation1173
General Instructions for Children after One Year1174
General Diet from Ages One to Two1174
Simplicity in Feeding1175
Old Age1178
Three Periods of Old Age1181
Athletics1188
Sedentary Occupations1194
General Directions for Sedentary Worker1198
Climatic Extremes1199
Lesson XVII
Nervousness—Cause and Cure 1209
Causes1213
The Remedy1217
Suggestions for Spring1220
Suggestions for Summer1222
Suggestions for Fall1223
Suggestions for Winter1224
Lesson XVIII
Points on Practise1231
Introduction to Points on Practise 1233
Suggestions for the Practitioner1236
Value of Experience1239
Value of Diagnosis1241
Educate Your Patient1242
Effect of Mental Conditions1245
Publicity1247
Be Courteous and Tolerant1250
Lesson XIX
Evolution of Man1253
What is Evolution?1255
The Three Great Proofs of the Evolution of Animal Life 1261
Man's Animal Kinship1265
Lesson XX
Sex and Heredity1277
The Origin of Sex1279
A Rational View of Sexual Health1285
Embryological Growth—Prenatal Culture1289
Heredity1293
What Heredity Is1295
Summary of Facts regarding Sex and Heredity 1297
Lesson XXI
Rest and Sleep1299
Rest1301
The Old Physiology1305
Rest and Re-creation 1306
Sleep1308
Some Reasons1310
Oxidation and Air1312
Lesson XXII
A Lesson for Business Men1315
A Good Business Man1320
The Routine Life of the Average Business Man 1322
Some Suggestions for a Good Business Man1324
Lesson XXIII
Exercise and Re-creation 1327
Exercise1329
Constructive Exercises1330
Exercise for Repair1331
Physiology of Exercise1333
Systems of Physical Culture 1338
Program for Daily Exercise1343
Re-creation1346
A chest of miracles, Close-packed and all secure, the unstable mass Supported from a ruinous collapse Or helpless flexion, by a spinous pile Rigid as oak, yet flexile as the stem of the nodding flower. Within, a nest of wonders, separate tasks Each organ faithfully performing, still From day to day harmoniously smooth And uncomplaining, but for hindrances Or ruinous urgence. Thou hast wisely said, Melodious singer of old Israel, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made." E. C.