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The Child's Day

by Hutchinson Woods

Parenting & Families

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Woods Hutchinson (1862-1930) was an American physician. He worked as a professor of anatomy at the State University of Iowa between 1891 and 1896 and then became a professor of comparative pathology at the University of Buffalo until 1900. While at Buffalo, he also edited The Polyclinic and lectured at the London Medical Graduates' College and the University of London, starting in 1899. Besides The Polyclinic, he edited Vis Medicatrix early in his career, (from 1890 to 1891). In 1903, he became the Oregon State Health Officer; he held that post for two years. Following the post in Oregon, he became a professor of clinical medicine at the New York Polyclinic. He was the author of The Gospel According to Darwin (1898), Studies in Human and Comparative Pathology (1901), Instinct and Health (1908), Preventable Diseases (1909), Conquest of Consumption (1910), Exercise and Health (1911), A Handbook of Health (1911), The Child's Day (1912), Common Diseases (1913) and Civilization and Health (1914). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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...are as easily chilled as if they had been wetthrough with rain or puddle water. Always take off your rubbers in thehouse or in school, because they are holding in not only the water ofperspiration, but the poisons as well; and these will poison yourentire blood, so that you soon have a headache and feel generallyuncomfortable. II. AN EARLY ROMPThe minute you are outside the door, the fresh morning air strikesyour face, and you draw four or five big breaths, as if you would liketo fill yourself as full as you could hold. If you have had a goodnight's sleep and a good breakfast, the very feel of the outdoor airwill make you want to run and jump and shout and throw your armsabout. This warms you up finely and gives you a good color; but if youkeep it up long, you will notice that two things are happening: one, that you are breathing faster than you were before; the other, thatyour heart is beating harder and faster, so that you can almost feelit throbbing without putting your hand on your...