In the case of chronic maladies, these will generally be found in
erroneous habits of life, which, through long operation, have resulted
in depreciating the vital forces of the body and so deranging the
bodily functions that the natural defenses have been finally broken
down and morbid conditions have been established.
“Chronic disease is like a fire in the walls of a house which has
slowly worked its way from the foundation upward, until the flames have
burst out through the roof. The appearance of the flame is the first
outward indication of the mischief which has been going on; but it is
not the beginning. It is rather the end of the destructive process.
“The Physiologic Method does not undertake to cure disease, but people
who are diseased. It recognizes the disease process as an effort on the
part of the body to recover normal conditions,—a struggle on the part
of the vital forces to maintain life under abnormal conditions and to
restore vital equilibrium.
“At the outset of his course of treatment, the patient is instructed
that his recovery will depend very largely upon himself; that the
curative power does not reside in the doctor or in the treatment, but
is a vital force operating within the patient himself. The Physiologic
Method is based upon this fact.
[Illustration: A GROUP AT THE BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM (DR. KELLOGG ON
THE RIGHT).]
“So the treatment of a patient consists, first of all, in the
exact regulation of all his habits of life, and the establishment
of wholesome conditions. The simple life and return to Nature are
the ideals constantly held up before him. He must work out his own
salvation; he must ‘cease to do evil and learn to do well’; he must
cease to sow seeds of disease, and by every means in his power
cultivate health.”
XV
HEALTH REFORM AND THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED
We have set forth the underlying principles of the new art of health;
and we have shown how these principles may be applied by individuals,
and how they have been formulated and taught at the great University
of Health at Battle Creek. It remains to give an account of a great
national movement which has for its aim the spreading of a knowledge
of the new hygiene in a semi-political way, a circumstance which to
our minds proves that not only this nation but the whole of modern
civilization is on the eve of a great revolution in its habits of
living, and that this revolution will have for its rallying cry the
word “Knowledge.” And more especially, “Knowledge of Our Bodies, and of
How to Care for Them.”
The state of ignorance of the majority of people concerning the
workings of their own bodies and the way to take care of them is
to-day one of the greatest barriers to human progress. Few people
realize that they ought to care for their bodies; or that they ought
to know about their bodies until they are actually broken down. Men
use their intelligence more aptly elsewhere; but all progress in other
directions, in the arts and crafts and the labors of modern industry,
will go for nothing if we do not learn to apply our intelligence to the
matter of health.
More and more does the need for knowledge press home upon us. It is
impossible for the race to survive unless that knowledge is spread. Our
ancestors, it is true, knew less of their bodily make-up and bodily
care than we do, but our ancestors did not need it so much. They were
country dwellers, and people of the open air; they were not slaves of
machinery and of office routine.
Dr. J. Pease Norton, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Yale
University, recently read before the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, a paper which vividly summed up the situation
which confronts us. He said:
“There are four great wastes to-day, the more lamentable because they
are unnecessary. They are preventable death, preventable sickness,
preventable conditions of low physical and mental efficiency, and
preventable ignorance. The magnitude of these wastes is testified to by
experts competent to judge. They fall like the shades of night over the
whole human race, blotting out its fairest years of happiness.
“The facts are cold and bare—one million, five hundred thousand persons
must die in the United States during the next twelve months; equivalent
to four million, two hundred thousand persons will be constantly sick;
over five million homes, consisting of twenty-five million persons,
will be made more or less wretched by mortality and morbidity.
“We look with horror on the black pages of the Middle Ages. The black
waste was but a passing cloud compared with the white waste visitation.
Of people living to-day, over eight million will die of tuberculosis,
and the federal government does not raise a hand to help them.
“THE NEGLECT OF HEALTH A NATIONAL EVIL”
“The Department of Agriculture spends seven million dollars on plant
health and animal health every year, but, with the exception of the
splendid work done by Doctors Wiley, Atwater, and Benedict, Congress
does not directly appropriate one cent for promoting the physical
well-being of babies. Thousands have been expended in stamping out
cholera among swine, but not one dollar was ever voted for eradicating
pneumonia among human beings. Hundreds of thousands are consumed
in saving the lives of elm trees from the attacks of beetles; in
warning farmers against blights affecting potato plants; the importing
Sicilian bugs to fertilize fig blossoms in California; in ostracizing
various species of weeds from the ranks of the useful plants, and in
exterminating parasitic growths that prey on fruit trees. In fact,
the Department of Agriculture has expended during the last ten years
over forty-sixmillions of dollars. But not a wheel of the official
machinery at Washington was ever set in motion for the alleviation or
cure of diseases of the heart or kidneys, which will carry off over
six millions of our entire population. Eight millions will perish of
pneumonia, and the entire event is accepted by the American people
with a resignation equal to that of the Hindoo, who, in the midst of
indescribable filth, calmly awaits the day of cholera.
“During the next census period more than six million infants under two
years of age will end their little spans of life while mothers sit by
and watch in utter helplessness. And yet this number could probably be
decreased by as much as half. But nothing is done.
“In the United States alone, of the eighty millions living to-day, all
must die, after having lived, say a little more than three billion,
two hundred million years of life, on the average slightly more than
twoscore years. Of these years, one billion, six hundred million,
represent the unproductive years of childhood and training.
“Consider that the burden of the unproductive years on the productive
years is 20-20, or say 100 per cent. Could the average length of life
be increased to sixty years, say to forty-eight billion years lived by
eighty millions of people, the burden of the unproductive years would
fall to 50 per cent. In the judgment of men competent to hold opinions,
this is not impossible.”
It was the reading of this paper, which led to the formation of the
Committee of One Hundred on National Health, of which Professor Irving
Fisher of Yale is president, and which includes among its members such
men and women as Ex-President Eliot of Harvard, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Miss
Jane Addams, Luther Burbank, Horace Fletcher, Professor Chittenden, Dr.
Kellogg, and Dr. Trudeau.
The primary and immediate purpose of the Committee’s work is to promote
the idea of a national Bureau of Health; but the field open to the
committee includes the whole subject of public sanitation and hygiene.
President Roosevelt has formally endorsed the work, in a letter from
which the following is an extract: “Our national health is physically
our greatest national asset. To prevent any possible deterioration
of the American stock should be a national ambition. We cannot too
strongly insist on the necessity of proper ideals for the family, for
simple life and for those habits and tastes which produce vigor and
make more capable of strenuous service to our country. The preservation
of national vigor should be a matter of patriotism.... Federal activity
in these matters has already developed greatly, until it now includes
quarantine, meat inspection, pure food administration, and federal
investigation of the conditions of child labor. It is my hope that
these important activities may be still further developed.”
And in his notable message to the country, rather than to Congress,
which he issued in December, 1907, President Roosevelt wrote: “There
is a constantly growing interest in this country in the question of
public health. At least, the public mind is awake to the fact that
many diseases, notably tuberculosis, are national scourges. The work
of the State and City Boards of Health should be supplemented by the
constantly increasing interest on the part of the national government.
The Congress has already provided a Bureau of Public Health, and has
provided for an hygienic report. There are other valuable laws relating
to the public health connected with the various departments. This whole
branch of the government should be strengthened and aided in every way.”
As somebody said before, these things are no more true because a
President has said them; but the fact that President Roosevelt has said
them, has given wide publicity to them, and impressed them upon the
public consciousness.
The knowledge that economic conditions;—the way in which men and women
live because they have to so live in order to earn a living, is the
fundamental factor in the case of public health, is something that is
bound to become recognized as the growth of knowledge goes on. It will
only be a question of time before men and women will see that in order
to have health, it will be necessary to organize all the affairs of
life with a view to the well-being of humanity as a whole.
In order to make effective the work of the Committee of One Hundred,
its President, Irving Fisher, assisted by Professor Norton, organized
the American Health League, which has absorbed the Public Health
Defense League, an organization formed for the purpose of fighting
the patent medicine evil, and awakening public interest in matters
of hygiene. The Health League already numbers nine or ten thousand
citizens, who are pledged to give financial and moral support to the
work of the Committee of One Hundred in its efforts to establish
a national Bureau of Health. The League is rapidly increasing in
membership, for a spirit of interest in hygiene is abroad in the land.
Local advisory committees have already been formed in more than two
hundred cities and towns, and it is planned to prosecute the work of
multiplying these branch committees until every town in the United
States shall be represented in the membership. The Committee of One
Hundred publishes the magazine _American Health_ as its official organ,
and all American men and women who are interested in the spread of
the new hygiene are invited by the Committee to correspond with its
Executive Secretary, Drawer 30, New Haven, Conn.
Connected with the advisory and other subcommittees, are committees
of writers, editors, and newspaper men, numbering many of our most
prominent penmen and pressmen, and the power of molding public opinion
through this channel alone is very great. There is now being organized
a Council on Co-operation, to consist of the leading officers of
American religions, fraternal, learned, secret, and educational
organizations; and also a Council of Research, to consist of leading
investigators interested in original research along public health lines.
In other words, the Committee of One Hundred has grown to a compact,
well-organized, rapidly-spreading, national Army of Health. It has
grown within a wonderfully short period, simply because there was a
great and pressing _need_ for it.
Professor William H. Welch, a member of the Committee of One Hundred,
and Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University, has put himself
on record as saying that if the nation were to apply in practice the
existing knowledge of hygiene, the nation’s death rate would be cut in
two. In commenting on this statement, Irving Fisher said:
“The greatest asset of all, the physical health of our citizens, is
still neglected. Professor Nicholson, an economist of Scotland, has
estimated that the living capital of Great Britain is worth five times
the physical capital. That is, if we capitalize each man’s working
capacity and add together this capitalization throughout the whole
realm of Great Britain, the value of the population so obtained is
five times the value of all the land and all the railroads and all
the buildings, and all the iron mines and all the other capital which
is ordinarily called wealth. If we could make this human capital
within the United States double its present worth (it is already five
times that of the inanimate capital), it is evident what an enormous
improvement would ensue as compared with the possible improvements in
saving arid lands, and other physical resources. Our health has much
more than a money value. But these calculations show that even on the
most materialistic method of reckoning, there is truth in Emerson’s
statement, “the first wealth is health.”
APPENDIX
DIET LIST
Proteid Carbo Fat % Water % Mineral Food Value
% hydrate Matter per pound
% % calories
Broiled tenderloin
steak 23.5 0 20.4 54.8 1.2 1300
Lamb chops,
broiled 21.7 0 29.9 47.6 1.3 1665
Smoked ham,
fat, edible portion 14.3 0 52.3 27.9 3.7 2485
Roast turkey,
edible portion 27.3 0 18.4 52.0 1.2 1295
Fricasseed chicken,
edible portion 17.6 2.4 11.5 67.5 1.0 855
Cooked bluefish,
edible portion 26.1 0 4.5 68.2 1.2 670
Canned salmon,
edible portion 21.8 0 12.1 63.5 2.6 915
Fresh oysters,
solid 6.0 3.3 1.3 88.3 1.1 230
Boiled hen’s
eggs 13.2 0 12.0 73.2 0.8 765
Butter 1.0 0 85.0 11.0 3.0 3605
Full cream
cheese 25.9 2.4 33.7 34.2 3.8 1950
Whole cow’s
milk 3.3 5.0 4.0 87.0 0.7 325
Wheat flour, entire
wheat 13.8 71.9 1.9 11.4 1.0 1675
Boiled rice 2.8 24.4 0.1 72.5 0.2 525
Shredded wheat 10.5 77.9 1.4 8.1 2.1 1700
Macaroni 13.4 74.1 0.9 10.3 1.3 1665
Brown bread 5.4 47.1 1.8 43.6 2.1 1050
Wheat bread or
rolls 8.9 56.7 4.1 29.2 1.1 1395
Whole wheat
bread 9.4 49.7 0.9 38.4 1.3 1140
Soda crackers 9.8 73.1 9.1 5.9 2.1 1925
Ginger bread 5.8 63.5 9.0 18.8 2.9 1670
Sponge cake 6.3 65.9 10.7 15.3 1.8 1795
Apple pie 3.1 42.8 9.8 42.5 1.8 1270
Custard pie 4.2 26.1 6.3 62.4 1.0 830
Indian Meal
pudding 5.5 27.5 4.8 60.7 1.5 815
Fresh asparagus 1.8 3.3 0.2 94.0 0.7 105
Fresh lima beans 7.1 22.0 0.7 68.5 1.7 570
Dried lima beans 18.1 65.9 1.5 10.4 4.1 1625
Cooked beets 2.3 7.4 0.1 88.6 1.6 185
Fresh cabbage,
edible portion 1.6 5.6 0.3 91.5 1.0 145
Dried peas 24.6 62.0 1.0 9.5 2.9 1655
Green peas 7.7 16.9 O.5 74.6 1.0 465
Boiled potatoes 2.5 20.9 0.1 75.5 1.0 440
Fresh tomatoes 0.9 3.9 0.4 94.3 0.5 105
Baked beans,
canned 6.9 19.6 2.5 68.9 2.1 600
Apples, edible
portion 0.4 14.2 0.5 84.6 3.0 290
Bananas, yellow,
edible portion 1.3 22.0 0.6 75.3 0.8 460
Oranges, edible
portion 0.8 11.6 0.2 86.9 0.5 240
Peaches, edible
portion 0.7 9.4 0.1 89.4 0.4 190
Fresh strawberries 1.0 7.4 0.6 90.4 0.6 180
Dried prunes,
edible portion 2.1 73.3 0.0 22.3 2.3 1400
Almonds, edible
portion 21.0 13.3 54.9 4.8 2.0 3030
Peanuts, edible
portion 25.8 24.4 38.6 9.2 2.0 2560
Pine nuts, edible
portion 33.9 6.9 49.4 6.4 3.4 2845
Brazil nuts, edible
portion 17.0 7.0 66.8 5.3 3.9 3265
Soft-shell walnuts,
edible portion 16.6 16.1 63.4 2.5 1.4 3285
INDEX
A
Abbott, Dr. Lyman, 277
Achroödextrin, 131
Adams, Dr. G. Cook, 186
Addams, Miss Jane, 277
Aerobes, 181
Albumenoids, 96
Alcohol, 193-199
Ali—mentary canal, 97
_American Health_, 281
American Medical Missionary College, 261
Amylodextrin, 131
Anderson, Dr. William G., 50
Anaerobic infection, 126
Antiseptics, 101
Antitoxic foods, 123
Appendicitis, 125
Appetite, 153
Apples, 129
sweet, 130
Arms, holding horizontal, 84
Arterio-sclerosis, 116
Atwater, Dr., 275
Autointoxication, 72, 113, 117, 126
Ayers, Dr. Edward A., 25
B
Bacillus, Bulgarian, 124
Bacteria, putrefactive, 180
Baker, Sir Samuel, 167
Bananas, 128
Bath, daily cold, 243
Bathing, sea, 245
Battle Creek Sanitarium, 6, 30, 170, 205, 247, 258-266
Beans, 123
Beaumont, Dr., 151
Beef, 182
roast, 184
Benedict, Prof., 159, 275
Bethesda Rescue Home, 261
Bile, 97, 99, 100
Blood, 26
battle of, 21
-pumping process, 226
Boiling, 132, 139
Bones, 99
Born, Dr. Frank, 52
Bouchard, 72
Bowels, catarrh of, 235
inactive, 227
Bread, raised, 123
warm, 133
Breathing, 219
Bright’s disease, 114, 142, 185, 188
Bubonic plague, 24
Buds, taste, 66
Bulgarians, 125
Burbank, Luther, 277
Butter, 139
sterilized, 123
Buttermilk, 123
C
Cabbage, 136
Caffeine, 202
Cake, 133
Calories, 75
in food, 105
Calory, 104
Canal, alimentary, 97
Cancer, 167-168, 186, 188
Candy, 142
Cannon, Prof., 19, 65, 166
Carbohydrate, 98, 105
Carbohydrates, 71
foodstuffs rich in, 111
Carbon dioxide, 22
Carnivores, 177
Cauliflower, 123
Cells, white, 22 (see leucocytes)
Cellulose, 190
Cereals, 141
cooked, 123
cooking of, 132
eating of, 135
prepared, 263
Cheese, 140
poisons, 140
Chewing, complete, 46
Chickens, 183
Chittenden, Prof. Russell H., 5, 18, 19, 57, 69, 73, 80, 102, 154,
175, 191, 277
Christian Science, 11, 169
Coffee, 200
Cold, taking, 223
Colds, 24
Colon, 97, 113, 121
Colver, Dr. Benton A., 233
Combe, 72, 175
Compress, cold, 246
Complete chewing, 46
Constipation, 127
Consumption, 114, 223, 256
air cure for, 225
Cooking, dry, 132
kettle, 132
over, 132
Corn flakes, toasted, 123
Corpuscles, 25
red, 22
white, 22, 27
Coughing, 255
Council on Co-operation, 281
of Research, 281
Cow, tubercular, 138
Cream, 123
Curtis, 19
D
Deaths, ratio of among flesh-eaters, 188
ratio of among those eating little meat, 189
Deep-knee bending, 85
Degeneration of tissue, 120
Dentistry, 249
Diabetes, 142, 167
Diet and endurance, relation between, 82
list, 287
reform, 203
Disease, Bright’s, 114, 142, 185, 188
germ theory of, 23
heart, 188
Diphtheria, 256
Dog-dairy, 154
Douglas, 28
Dynamometer (Prof. Fisher’s), 51
(Kellogg mercurial), 51
E
Eating between meals, 147
Eliot, President, 277
Enamel, 99
Endurance, 81
Enteritis, 185
Epilepsy, 168
Erythrodextrin, 131
Exercise, 230
regular, 89, 219
Exercises, 233
retarding autointoxication, 24
Eye, 26, 99
F
Fat, 71, 98, 105
emulsified, 141
foodstuffs rich in, 111, 127
Fatigue poisons, 34, 143
Fearthought, 46
Feet, cold, 247
Fever, yellow, 23
Figs, 127, 130
Fish, 143, 182
Fisher, Prof. Irving, 6, 18, 19, 57, 62, 69, 85-94, 175, 225, 277
Fletcher, Horace, 4, 15, 18, 19, 42-64, 73, 74, 143, 277
Fletcherism, 50, 57, 191
Fletcherizing, 49
Folin, Dr., 93, 191
Food-filter, 66
-units required daily, 108
Foods, antitoxic, 123
breakfast, 134
fried, 132
toxic, 122
Foodstuffs, laxative, 127
rich in various elements, 112
Fruit juices, 130
Fruits, 123, 127
G
Gastric juice, 97, 99, 165
Gates, Elmer, 168
Gautier, 175
Germ theory of disease, 23
Gladstone’s advice as to chewing, 49
Glucose, 96
Gluten, 135
Gout, 114
Grain preparations, 127
Grains, cooking of, 131
Granger, J. E., 87
Grippe, 24
Guilfoy, Dr. W. H., 188
Gulick, 19
Gullet, 96
H
Habit hunger, 64
Haig, 5
Ham, smoked, 184
Hanecke, 155
Haskell Home for Orphans, 261
Health, Defense League, Public, 280
League, American, 280
National Bureau of, 277
National Committee of One Hundred on, 277
Health-chocolate, 206
“Healthful Cookery,” 210
Heart disease, 188
Heat, 248
Helicon Hall, 204
Higgins, Prof. Hubert, 19, 66
Holding the arms horizontal, 84
Honey, 123
adulterated, 142
malt, 142
Horter, Dr., 175
Hunger, habit, 64
Hutchinson, Dr. Woods, 174, 186
Hydrochloric acid, 100
Hydrotherapy, 243, 247
Hyperacidity, 62
Hypoacidity, 62
I
Infection, anaerobic, 126
Influenza, 24, 32
Ingersoll, Robert, 35
Intestinal juice, 99, 101
Intestine, large, see colon
small, 97
Intestines, 60
Ioteyko, Dr. J., 176
J
James, William, 7, 169
Juice, gastric, 97, 99, 165
intestinal, 99, 101
lemon, 141
pancreating, 97, 99, 100
Juices, fruit, 130
K
Kellogg, Dr. J. H., 5, 13, 18, 19, 30, 61, 65, 107, 123, 125,
133, 148, 155, 159, 175, 181, 243, 258, 277
Kephyr, 124
Kidney troubles, 142
Kidneys, 102
Kipiani, Mlle. Varia, 176
Knee bending, deep, 85
Koninger, 255
Kumyss, 124
L
Leg-raising, 85
Lemon juice, 141
Lentils, 123
Leucocytes, 22, 27, 32
Levulose, 131
Liebig, 177
Life Boat Mission, 261
Liver, 102
chronic disease of, 227
cirrhosis of, 62, 227
Lung capacity, 220
Lymph, 26
Lysins, 28
M
Macaroni, 187
Macrophages, 120
Maltose, 131
Mania, 168
Maple sugar, 141
syrup, 141
Mason, 6
Masson, 125
Mastication, 49, 58, 61
Matzoon, 124
McGill University, 29
Meals, drinking at, 150
eating between, 147
irregularity of, 147
Meat, case as to, 173
cooked, 191
digestibility of proteid in, 190
extracts of, 177
Meltose, 143
Mendel, Prof. Lafayette B., 19, 69, 138, 191
Menus, 211-217
Metabolism, 95, 101, 173
Metchnikoff, Elie, 5, 15, 19, 27, 65, 72, 113-126, 175, 191, 195, 221
Milk, 137
Mineral salts, 98, 101, 127
Morphine, 201
Mosso, 84, 143
Mouth, infection of, 254
Mucous, 25, 97
membrane, 25
Murchison, 168
Mushroom, 137
Mustard, 142
Myosin, 178
N
Nelson, Dr. A. W., 181, 198
“New Thought,” 11, 169
Nicholson, Prof., 282
Nitrogen, 71
Norton, Dr. J. Pease, 273
Nuts, 123, 141
malted, 123
O
Oatmeal, 134
Oberg, S. A., 86, 87
Olive oil, 141
Olives, 141
Olympic Club, 44
Onions, 136
Opsonins, 28
Osmosis, 240
Oxygen, 22, 220
Oysters, 190
P
Paget, Sir George, 167
Pain, 248
Palate, soft, 67
Pancreas, 97
Pancreatic juice, 97, 99, 100
Papillae, circumvallate, 67
Pasteur Institute of Paris, 27
Pasteurization, 139
Pastry, 133
Pawlow, 6, 19, 65, 91, 153, 155-166
Pears, sweet, 130
Pelvis, pain in the, 249
Pepper, 142
Pepsin, 97, 100
Peptic glands, 202
Peptogenic food, 91
Perspiration, 241
Physiologic method, 270
Pie-crust, 133
Plague, bubonic, 24
Plasma, 28
Play, 230
Pneumonia, 24, 114, 195, 223, 225
Poisons, cheese, 140
fatigue, 34, 143
volatile, 202
Pork, 184
Potato, 123, 135
Priessintz, 242
Prophylactic School (of dentistry), 250
Prophylaxsis, oral, 256
Proteid, 70-73, 98, 103, 123
animal, 135
equivalents, 75
food, 64, 105
muscle, 178
vegetable, 135, 190
Proteids, foodstuffs rich in, 111
in cooked meat, 191
in peanut butter, 191
in pine nuts, 191
in walnuts, 191
proportion of to other food elements, 109
Prunes, 127, 130
Pus germ, 196
Putrefactive bacteria, 180
R
Recipes, 217
Rennet, 100
Resistance, vital, 36
Rheumatism, 114
Rice, 123
Richardson, Sir B. W., 5
Roasting, 132
Robert, 202
Rogers, 65
Roosevelt, President, 277
Rositansky, 36
S
Sadler, Dr., 26
Sager, 19
St. Martin, Alexis, 151
Salads, 127
Saleeby, Dr., 19, 159
Saliva, 26, 59, 65, 95, 99, 160
Salivary glands, 95
Salts, mineral, 98, 101, 127
Sardines, 182
Sausage, large, 184
raw, 185
small, 184
Science, Christian, 11, 169
“Science in the Kitchen,” 210
Self-poisoning, 72 (see autointoxication)
Shaw, Bernard, 173
Skin (germ tight), 25
Smith, Dr. D. D., 250-254
Sneezing, 255
Snow, Dr., 167
Solar plexus, 149
Spaghetti, 187
Spleen, 227
Standard, voit, 75
Starch, 60
Steak, hamburger, 184
porterhouse, 184
round, 184
Steaming, 132
Stewart, Dr. Charles E., 194
Stimulants, 193
Stomach, acidity of, 62
catarrh of, 235
chronic disease of, 227
dilation of, 62
Streptococci, 197
Sugar, 60, 96
cane, 65, 130
malt, 142
maple, 141
Supper, 149
Syrup, maple, 141
Syrups, 142
T
Table, showing for different ages the average height, weight,
and No. of food units required daily, 108
Tape worms, 143, 179
Taste, 59
Taste buds, 66
Tea, 200
Tears, 25
Teeth, care of the, 249
Therapeutics, physiological, 268
Therapy, physical, 266
Tissier, 72, 175
Tissue, degeneration of, 120
Toasting, 132
Tolstoi, 115
Tongue, 66
Toxic foods, 122
Trichinosis, 179
Trudeau, Dr., 277
Tuberculosis, 24, 170, 190, 195
deaths from, 225
Turck, Dr. F. B., 175, 177
Twain, Mark, 210
Typhoid, 24, 138
U
Uric acid, 143
V
Vegetables, 123, 127
Vegetarianism, 122, 174, 176
Ventilation, 223
Vinegar, 141
Vital resistance, 36
Voit standard, 75
W
Water, cold, 248
hot, 248
Water bag, cold, 247
Wax, 25
Welch, Prof. William H., 282
When to eat, 145
Whisky, Scotch, 197
White cells, 22 (see leucocytes)
Wiley, Dr., 275
Williams, Michael, 15, 16
Wine, port, 196
Wolfe, 202