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How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science By: Irving Fisher (1867-1947) |
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[Illustration: LIVE!
THE LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE INC.
NEW YORK. N. Y.
25 WEST 45th STREET]
Directors Hon. William H. Taft
Henry H. Bowman
Francis R. Cooley
Robert W. de Forest
Irving Fisher
Eugene Lyman Fisk
Harold A. Ley
Elmer E. Rittenhouse
Charles H. Sabin
Frank A. Vanderlip
HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT
Chairman, Board of Directors ELMER E. RITTENHOUSE
President GEN. W. C. GORGAS
Consultant, Sanitation PROF. IRVING FISHER
Chairman, Hygiene Reference Board EUGENE L. FISK, M.D.
Director of Hygiene HAROLD A. LEY
Vice president and Treasurer JAMES D. LENNEHAN
Secretary
The Institute was established by a group of scientists, publicists, and
business men, who desired to provide a self supporting central
institution of national scope devoted to the science of disease
prevention a responsible and authoritative source from which the public
might draw knowledge and inspiration in the great war of civilization
against needless sickness and premature death.
LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE, Inc.
25 WEST 45th STREET :: NEW YORK CITY
HOW TO LIVE
[Illustration: Hon. William Howard Taft
Chairman, Board of Directors Life Extension Institute, Inc.
COPYRIGHT MOFFETT STUDIO]
HOW TO LIVE
RULES FOR HEALTHFUL LIVING
BASED ON MODERN SCIENCE AUTHORIZED BY AND PREPARED IN COLLABORATION
WITH THE HYGIENE REFERENCE BOARD OF THE
LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE, INC. BY IRVING FISHER, Chairman ,
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, YALE UNIVERSITY AND EUGENE LYMAN FISK, M.D.,
DIRECTOR OF HYGIENE OF THE INSTITUTE NINTH EDITION FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1916
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
(Printed in the United States of America.) Published, October, 1915
Second Edition, November, 1915
Third Edition, December, 1915
Fourth Edition, March, 1916
Fifth Edition, April, 1916
Sixth Edition, May, 1916
Seventh Edition, June, 1916
Eighth Revised Edition, September, 1916
Ninth Edition, September, 1916
FOREWORD
To one who has been an eye witness of the wonderful achievements of
American medical science in the conquest of acute communicable and
pestilential diseases in those regions of the earth where they were
supposed to be impregnably entrenched, there is the strongest possible
appeal in the present rapidly growing movement for the improvement of
physical efficiency and the conquest of chronic diseases of the vital
organs. Through the patient, intelligent and often heroic work of our army
medical men, and the staff of the United States Public Health Service,
death rates supposedly fixed have been cut in half. While it is true that to the public mind there is a more lurid and
spectacular menace in such diseases as small pox, yellow fever and
plague, medical men and public health workers are beginning to realize
that, with the warfare against such maladies well organized, it is now
time to give attention to the heavy loss from lowered physical
efficiency and chronic, preventable disease, a loss exceeding in
magnitude that sustained from the more widely feared communicable
diseases. The insidious encroachment of the chronic diseases that sap the vitality
of the individual and impair the efficiency of the race is a matter of
increasing importance... Continue reading book >>
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