How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science, 1917

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A comprehensive guide to personal health and hygiene grounded in early twentieth-century medical and scientific thinking. Organized around the fundamentals of healthful living: air, food, poisons, and activity.

The book covers topics including housing, clothing, outdoor living, deep breathing, nutrition, mastication, posture, the effects of alcohol and tobacco, avoiding colds, and the fifteen rules of hygiene. Supplementary sections address overweight and underweight, degenerative disease trends, and eugenics.

Condition: Mustard yellow cloth hardcover with black lettering and decorative border on front board and spine; no dust jacket. Boards show general wear, soiling, and staining, with some rubbing and loss at the spine ends and corners. Interior pages show age toning; binding is sound. A well-used working copy with appealing period character.

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