HOW TO LIVE ***
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PREVENT LIFE-WASTE--UPBUILD NATIONAL VITALITY
[Illustration: LIVE! THE LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE INC. NEW YORK. N. Y. 25 WEST 45th STREET]
_Directors_
Hon. William H. Taft Henry H. Bowman Francis R. Cooley Robert W. de Forest Irving Fisher Eugene Lyman Fisk Harold A. Ley Elmer E. Rittenhouse Charles H. Sabin Frank A. Vanderlip
HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT _Chairman, Board of Directors_
ELMER E. RITTENHOUSE _President_
GEN. W. C. GORGAS _Consultant, Sanitation_
PROF. IRVING FISHER _Chairman, Hygiene Reference Board_
EUGENE L. FISK, M.D. _Director of Hygiene_
HAROLD A. LEY _Vice-president and Treasurer_
JAMES D. LENNEHAN _Secretary_
The Institute was established by a group of scientists, publicists, and business men, who desired to provide a self-supporting central institution of national scope devoted to the science of disease prevention--a responsible and authoritative source from which the public might draw knowledge and inspiration in the great war of civilization against needless sickness and premature death.
LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE, Inc. 25 WEST 45th STREET :: NEW YORK CITY
HOW TO LIVE
[Illustration: Hon. William Howard Taft Chairman, Board of Directors Life Extension Institute, Inc. COPYRIGHT MOFFETT STUDIO]
HOW TO LIVE
RULES FOR HEALTHFUL LIVING BASED ON MODERN SCIENCE
_AUTHORIZED BY AND PREPARED IN COLLABORATION_ _WITH THE HYGIENE REFERENCE BOARD OF THE_ _LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE, INC._
BY
IRVING FISHER, _Chairman_, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, YALE UNIVERSITY
AND
EUGENE LYMAN FISK, M.D., DIRECTOR OF HYGIENE OF THE INSTITUTE
_NINTH EDITION_
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Printed in the United States of America.)
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_Published, October, 1915_ _Second Edition, November, 1915_ _Third Edition, December, 1915_ _Fourth Edition, March, 1916_ _Fifth Edition, April, 1916_ _Sixth Edition, May, 1916_ _Seventh Edition, June, 1916_ _Eighth Revised Edition, September, 1916_ _Ninth Edition, September, 1916_
FOREWORD
To one who has been an eye-witness of the wonderful achievements of American medical science in the conquest of acute communicable and pestilential diseases in those regions of the earth where they were supposed to be impregnably entrenched, there is the strongest possible appeal in the present rapidly growing movement for the improvement of physical efficiency and the conquest of chronic diseases of the vital organs.
Through the patient, intelligent and often heroic work of our army medical men, and the staff of the United States Public Health Service, death-rates supposedly fixed have been cut in half.
While it is true that to the public mind there is a more lurid and spectacular menace in such diseases as small-pox, yellow fever and plague, medical men and public health workers are beginning to realize that, with the warfare against such maladies well organized, it is now time to give attention to the heavy loss from lowered physical efficiency and chronic, preventable disease, a loss exceeding in magnitude that sustained from the more widely feared communicable diseases.
