 | 1835 - 240 pages
...most active medicines are compounded of the same elements which enter into the . composition of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Caloric, or the matter of heat, by diffusing itself among the primary atoms, renders bodies solid,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pages
...book has been •written. It treats of the organisation and functions of the human body — of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat — and of many other things which no man can ignore with impunity ; and happily for those to whom... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...often startling. Good health, in fact life itself, is dependent upon the amount and quality of the air we breathe — the water we drink and the food we eat. We cannot always command fresh pure air, but we can control what we pat in oar stomachs. Blood has been... | |
 | 1911 - 830 pages
...deadening. Custom is often foolish. And both are sometimes degrading. Our bodies are built up from the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Air is pretty much the same for all, rich or poor. So is water. But food is far from being so. And... | |
 | Cornelius Benjamin Fox - 1878 - 554 pages
...modern ideas as to the relations of health to the conditions of those surroundings of life, namely, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, which so seriously influence it for good or evil, are often received with a smile of incredulity. The... | |
 | 1909 - 456 pages
...and of humanity would dictate immediate and generous expenditure of public moneys for improving the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, as well as for eliminating the dangers to life and limb which now surround us. Chapter XIII. — The... | |
 | Thomas London - 1884 - 184 pages
...fluids of the body of low forms of animal and vegetable life, introduced by germs which may be found in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. All these might with propriety be termed parasites inasmuch as they live and grow upon other organisms,... | |
 | alfred c. pope, m.d., and d. dyce brown, m.a., m.d. - 1884 - 968 pages
...myriads, and are constantly settling on our skin and mucous membranes, and being taken in with the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, so as to coat our tongue, teeth, respiratory and digestive mucous membranes, and thus get into our... | |
 | 1884 - 616 pages
...and National work ! The studies in regard to sewage and drainage; the purities and impurities of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; contagion, infection, heredity, zymotic or other influences are being prosecuted day by day with a... | |
 | 1884 - 784 pages
...myriads, and are constantly settling on our skin and mucous membranes, and being taken in with the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, so as to coat our tongue, teeth, respiratory and digestive mucous membranes, and thus get into our... | |
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... the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, as well as for eliminating the dangers to life and limb which now surround us. 
