y and
thought to his or her specialty, will contribute to the Library, and it
is safe to promise that each volume will join with its eminently
practical information a still more valuable stimulation of thought.

ERNEST INGERSOLL.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I IMPORTANCE OF OUR SUBJECT 3
II CARE OF THE PERSON 12
III SANITATION IN AND ABOUT THE HOUSE 35
IV HYGIENE OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD 63
V PROPER EATING--THE SECRET OF GOOD HEALTH 92
VI BREAD AND ITS RELATIONS 104
VII MEATS, SUGARS AND MILK 117
VIII FOOD-VALUE OF VEGETABLES 130
IX DANGER IN FRUITS AND PICKLES 144
X DRINKS--PROPER AND HARMFUL 148
XI IMPORTANCE OF GOOD COOKING 164
XII SEVEN AVOIDABLE DISEASES 171
XIII HYGIENE OF THE SICK ROOM 217
XIV EMERGENCIES AND ACCIDENTS 223
XV WHAT TO DO WHEN POISONED 251
APPENDIX 273

HEALTH ON THE FARM

CHAPTER I

IMPORTANCE OF OUR SUBJECT

Notwithstanding the extraordinary advances in a material way that have
been accomplished in this country within the last few decades, it is a
significant and most alarming fact that progress in hygienic matters has
lagged far behind. Why this is, it would be very difficult to say,--for
the reason that the causes are perhaps many. Chief among these, probably,
is the fact that our progress along industrial lines has occupied the
entire time of the majority of our best intellects, and it is also in no
small degree the consequence of a fatalism that regards disease as a
direct visitation of providence and therefore a thing which man may not
avoid. Another cause in some instances is the pride of our people in
their homes and respective localities, which causes them to repel with
indignation the suggestion that any special measures are necessary in
order to conserve the public health where they reside. Ignorant as the
average man is of the causes that produce sickness and the means by which
this result is accomplished, he is naturally not in a position to form a
correct judgment concerning such matters, and as a consequence, sees no
reasons f