Identifier: healthylivin01wins (find matches)
Title: Healthy living
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957
Subjects: Health
Publisher: New York and Chicago, Charles E. Merrill company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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use tobacco,until you are full-grown. 8. Keep Clean. Keep your teeth sound and strong by regular, thorough brushing. Keep your nails and your hair clean and neat. Guarding against Germ Diseases.—If you follow the rules outlined above, your body ought to be strong and healthy and fit for any service. All the strength and health may disappear in a few hours, however, if the germ of some disease gets in and makes a successful attack. So there are other precautions that you ought to remember, in guarding against these unseen enemies of yours. 1. Guard the Gateway of the Mouth. Keep out of the mouth everything that is not clean. That means fingers and everything except clean food and the tooth-brush,for you can never be sure that other things are clean. 2. Eat Clean Food. Eat only clean food; that is, food SOME RULES FOR HEALTH 219 that has been cooked or thoroughly washed and has not been handled by any one with unclean hands, or by anyone who is ill. Do not eat food that is the least bit spoiled.
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Fig. 79.—Every Boy Scout must know how to help in case of an accident. 3. Eat with Clean Hands. Always wash your hands thoroughly before coming to the table and before eating between meals. Always wash your hands after using the toilet. 4. Fight against Insect Pests. Do all you can to help in the war against insect pests. Help to kill flies and 220 HEALTHY LIVING mosquitoes and to do away with the filth and stagnant water in which they breed. Keep flies and mosquitoes out of the house, and keep flies away from food. 5. Avoid Infection. Do not run needless risk of catching colds or other diseases by being with people who are ill, unless there is some good reason why you must. Do not kiss people who are ill or handle the things they have handled, unless it is necessary. 6. See the Doctor in Time, If you do not feel quite well, ask to see the school doctor. It may save you a serious illness and may safeguard many other people,if you consult the doctor in time. If you do not feel well, keep away from

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