A Handbook of Health. E-book. Formato PDF Woods Hutchinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Using the metaphor of the body as a machine this book gives great advice on how to live a healthy lifestyle. The advice is positive and the aim is for the healthy activities and lifestyle choices suggested to be fun and enjoyable for everybody.Simple to follow and full of good advice and easy humour this book is a good start for anyone wanting to turn their unhealthy habits into beneficial ones. The author Woods Hutchinson was a doctor and professor of medicine with a talent for writing and communication. He also had a heroic streak, volunteering his services as a doctor for the allies in the First World War.

Community Hygiene. E-book. Formato PDF Woods Hutchinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

One of the most significant and far-reaching movements of the day is the awakening of the health conscience of the community. No matter how alert, well informed, and prudent the individual may be, he is no longer able to protect his own health or that of his family from some of the most serious dangers-which threaten it. Even the most wealthy and in?uential citizen is utterly powerless to insure the purity of his water-supply, the proper disposal of his sewage and garbage, the purity of the milk his children drink, or the wholesomeness of the food on his table, except by the aid of the strong arm of the law acting through public officers of health. In fact, health has become a community problem. At first sight, the wisdom of giving children in formation about public health may seem open to question. They have no votes; and it will be several years before they are able either to in?uence public opinion or vote yes or no on questions of public sanitation. Furthermore, it may be argued that they are likely to have difficulty in understand ing the engineering and chemical problems involved in public sanitary measures.

Instinct and Health. E-book. Formato PDF Woods Hutchinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is the hand, which has marked man from other animals, which has made him what he is. It was to keep his hand from bearing the weight of his body and leave it free for the club and the stone that he originally rose up on his hind legs and acquired the erect position of which we are so proud. It was the new uses to which the hand was put with the weapon, the tool, that built up the brain SO that speech and thought became possible. As shrewd old Benjamin Franklin said a hundred years ago, Man is a tool using animal. Yet a large body of respectable taxpayers protest against the introduction of manual training into our schools as a waste of public money! Train the hand, then answer half the questions that the brain which it builds will ask — and you have education at its best.