HEALTH and GROWTH SERIES HEALTH THROUGH SCIENCE Hardback book by W.W. CHARTERS, PH. D., DEAN F. SMILEY, M.D., RUTH M. STRANG, PH. D. Illustrated with Drawings by Adrian Iorio and Photographs by Doris Day Over 460 pages The Macmillan Company 1937 Copyright, 1935, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Contents includes: " PART ONE Aids to Adventure If You Are Too Fat or Too Thin Energy for Exercise Food Substances Which Supply Calories Building Blocks of the Body The Minerals, One by One The Vitamins, One by One Choosing Food for the Day Safety Problems Twentieth-Century Crusaders When You Take a Drink of Water He's Straight Bringing Up the Baby and Small Children Tests Every Day PART TWO Progress in Healthful Living Aiding Digestion Aids to Good Teeth Helping the Heart Aids to Healthy Nose, Ears, Throat, and Lungs Building Better Bones Building and Training the Muscles Maintaining Body Temperature Aids to Good Eyesight Aids to Healthy Skin and Hair The Glands of Internal Secretion Aids to the Nervous System APPENDIX: Height-Weight Tables GLOSSARY INDEX " This book was previously owned by a School and has some stampings and markings from the school. It looks its age with a very worn cover and the edges of the pages look very dirty and yellowed, mostly from the side view. No torn or ripped pages. There are a few stains on the back cover. There are also some ink markings on the inside front cover and the inside covers and first and last pages are yellowed and dirty due to aging. The binding is a little loose where it attaches to the front. |