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Scarcely one half of the children of our country continue in school much beyond the fifth grade. It is important, therefore, that so far as possible the knowledge which has most to do with human welfare should be presented in the early years of school life. Fisher, Metchnikoff, Sedgwick, and others have shown that the health of a people influences the prosperity and happiness of a nation more than any other one thing. The highest patriotism is therefore the conservation of health. The seven hundred thousand lives annually destroyed by infectious diseases and the million other serious cases of sickness from contagious maladies, with all their. | Health Lessons by Alvin Davison 1 Health Lessons by Alvin Davison The Project Gutenberg EBook of Health Lessons by Alvin Davison This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title Health Lessons Book 1 Author Alvin Davison Release Date March 13 2010 EBook 31616 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 2 Health Lessons by Alvin Davison START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HEALTH LESSONS Produced by Larry B. Harrison D. Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http www.pgdp.net Illustration Book Cover HEALTH LESSONS BOOK I BY ALVIN DAVISON M.S. A.M. PH.D. PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY IN LAFAYETTE COLLEGE Illustration Publisher Symbol NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1910 BY ALVIN DAVISON. ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL LONDON. HEALTH LESSONS. BK. 1. W. P. 6 Illustration Exercise clean air and well-chewed food make a strong and healthy body. PREFACE Scarcely one half of the children of our country continue in school much beyond the fifth grade. It is important therefore that so far as possible the knowledge which has most to do with human welfare should be presented in the early years of school life. Fisher Metchnikoff Sedgwick and others have shown that the health of a people influences the prosperity and happiness of a nation more than any other one thing. The highest patriotism is therefore the conservation of health. The seven hundred thousand lives annually destroyed by infectious diseases and the million other serious cases of sickness from contagious maladies with all their attendant suffering are largely sacrifices on the altar of ignorance. The loving mother menaces the life of her babe by feeding it milk with a germ content nearly half as great as that of sewage the anemic girl sleeps with fast-closed windows .
