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The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
by A. W. DuncanWe may define a food to be any substance which will repair the functional waste of the body, increase its growth, or maintain the heat, muscular, and nervous energy. In its most comprehensive sense, the oxygen of the air is a food; as although it is admitted by the lungs, it passes into the blood, and there re-acts upon the other food which has pas..
Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes
by Jane AndrewsChild's Health Primer For Primary Classes, With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System. As this little book goes to press, Massachusetts, by an act of its legislature, is made the fourteenth state in this country that requires the pupils in the primary, as well as in the higher grades o..
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man
by Francis Gano BenedictThe establishment in Boston of an inquiry into the nutrition of man with the construction of a special laboratory for that purpose is a direct outcome of a series of investigations originally undertaken in the chemical laboratory of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut, by the late Prof. W. O. Atwater. Appreciating the remarkable results..
A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene
by Calvin CutterAgesilaus, king of Sparta, when asked what things boys should learn, replied, “Those which they will practise when they become men.” As health requires the observance of the laws inherent to the different organs of the human system, so not only boys, but girls, should acquire a knowledge of the laws of their organization. If sound morality depends ..
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions
by George W. CrileIN response to numerous requests I have brought together into this volume eight papers which may serve as a supplement to the volumes previously published[*] and as a preface to monographs now in preparation.[*] Surgical Shock, 1899; Surgery of the Respiratory System, 1899; Problems Relating to Surgical Operations, 1901; Blood Pressure in Surgery, ..
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
by John BunyanGrace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, or a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ to his Poor Servant John Bunyan is a Puritan spiritual autobiography written by John Bunyan. It was composed while Bunyan was serving a twelve-year prison sentence in Bedford gaol for preaching without a license and was first published in 1666.The t..
The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme) - The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
by Thérèse MartinThis electronic edition of the autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (The Story of a Soul) includes much, but not all, of the content of Soeur Thérèse of Lisieux (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1912; 8th ed., 1922), edited by Rev. T.N. Taylor. All the translated writings and sayings of St. Thérèse contained in that book are in this electr..
Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders
by J. Traherne MoggridgeClaudius Ælianus, who lived in the time of Hadrian, gives a detailed account of the habits which he attributes to ants, from which the following is a translation: "In summer time, after harvest, while the ears are being threshed the ants pry about in troops around the threshing floors, leaving their homes, and going singly, in pairs, or sometimes t..