ON THE CARE OF HEALTH.
Importance of some Knowledge of the Body and its Needs—Fearful
Responsibility of entering upon domestic Duties in Ignorance—The
fundamental vital Principle—Cell-life—Wonders of the
Microscope—Cell-multiplication—Constant interplay of Decay and Growth
necessary to Life—The red and white Cells of the Blood—Secreting
and converting Power—The nervous System—The Brain and the
Nerves—Structural Arrangement and Functions—The ganglionic System—The
nervous Fluid—Necessity of properly apportioned Exercise to Nerves
of Sensation and of Motion—Evils of excessive or insufficient
Exercise—Equal Development of the Whole 199