Hutchinson Woods
Woods Hutchinson (1862–1930) was an American physician, born at Selby, Yorkshire, England. He graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1880 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan four years later. 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: This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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Originally published in 1909. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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PREFACE Looking upon the human body from the physical point of view as the mostperfect, most ingeniously economical, and most beautiful of livingmachines, the author has attempted to write a little handbook ofpractical instruction for the running of it. And seeing that, like other machines, it derives the whole of its energyfrom its fuel, the subject of foods--their properties, uses, and methodsof preparation--has been gone into with unusual care. An adequate supplyof clean-burning food-fuel for the human engine is so absolutelyfundamental both for health and for efficiency--we are so literally whatwe have eaten--that to be well fed is in very fact two-thirds of thebattle of life from a physiological point of view. The whole discussionis in accord with the aim, kept in view throughout the book, of makingits suggestion and advice positive instead of negative, pointing outthat, in the language of the old swordsman, "attack is the bestdefense." If we actively do those things that make for health andefficiency, and which, for the most part, are attractive and agreeableto our natural instincts and unspoiled tastes,--such as exercising inthe open air, eating three square meals a day of real food, getting nineor ten hours of undisturbed sleep, taking plenty of fresh air and coldwater both inside and out,--this will of itself carry us safely past allthe forbidden side paths without the need of so much as a glance at the"Don't" and "Must not" with which it has been the custom to border andfence in the path of right living. On the other hand, while fully alive to the undesirability, and indeedwickedness, of putting ideas of dread and suffering into children'sminds unnecessarily, yet so much of the misery in the world is due toignorance, and could have been avoided if knowledge of the simplestcharacter had been given at the proper time, that it has been thoughtbest to set forth the facts as to the causation and nature of thecommonest diseases, and the methods by which they may be avoided. Thisis peculiarly necessary from the fact that most of the gravest enemiesof mankind have come into existence within a comparatively recent periodof the history of life,--only since the beginning of civilization, infact,--so that we have as yet developed no natural instincts for theiravoidance. Nor do we admit that we are adding anything to the stock of fears in theminds of children--the nurse-maid and the bad boys in the next alley...
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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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Preventable Diseases
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A Handbook of Health
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PREFACE Looking upon the human body from the physical point of view as the mostperfect, most ingeniously economical, and most beautiful of livingmachines, the author has attempted to write a little handbook ofpractical instruction for the running of it. And seeing that, like other machines, it derives the whole of its energyfrom its fuel, the subject of foods--their properties, uses, and methodsof preparation--has been gone into with unusual care. An adequate supplyof clean-burning food-fuel for the human engine is so absolutelyfundamental both for health and for efficiency--we are so literally whatwe have eaten--that to be well fed is in very fact two-thirds of thebattle of life from a physiological point of view. The whole discussionis in accord with the aim, kept in view throughout the book, of makingits suggestion and advice positive instead of negative, pointing outthat, in the language of the old swordsman, "attack is the bestdefense." If we actively do those things that make for health andefficiency, and which, for the most part, are attractive and agreeableto our natural instincts and unspoiled tastes,--such as exercising inthe open air, eating three square meals a day of real food, getting nineor ten hours of undisturbed sleep, taking plenty of fresh air and coldwater both inside and out,--this will of itself carry us safely past allthe forbidden side paths without the need of so much as a glance at the"Don't" and "Must not" with which it has been the custom to border andfence in the path of right living. On the other hand, while fully alive to the undesirability, and indeedwickedness, of putting ideas of dread and suffering into children'sminds unnecessarily, yet so much of the misery in the world is due toignorance, and could have been avoided if knowledge of the simplestcharacter had been given at the proper time, that it has been thoughtbest to set forth the facts as to the causation and nature of thecommonest diseases, and the methods by which they may be avoided. Thisis peculiarly necessary from the fact that most of the gravest enemiesof mankind have come into existence within a comparatively recent periodof the history of life,--only since the beginning of civilization, infact,--so that we have as yet developed no natural instincts for theiravoidance. Nor do we admit that we are adding anything to the stock of fears in theminds of children--the nurse-maid and the bad boys in the next alley...
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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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