Excerpt from A Manual of Personal Hygiene: Proper Living Upon a Physiologic Basis Strange as it may seem, the one subject which every fair-minded person admits should be taught thoroughly - namely, how to keep healthy - has been largely neglected. With all the recent agitation for educational reform, there remains, in a measure, the same indifference to the proper teaching of the care of the body, regarding which Herbert Spencer lectured the pedagogic world over forty years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.