Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them

Simple as this may appear at first sight, it is one of the most difficult problems with which human beings are confronted. The diet of a horse is limited, so is that of fowls. A...

The very title, “Fresh Air,” conjures up visions of wide-spreading moorlands and foam-flecked seas, of sunny dales and quiet trout-streams, of breezy golf links and bracing moun...

Work is the natural heritage of mankind. “Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.” He does so in order to get the means of livelihood. Yet even those...

One morning two men were walking along a road in the direction of a railway station. One of them was going at a steady pace, with a look of contentment about him, as if he were...

Several men were riding home together in a tramcar on their way from business, and were discussing their health, as so many people do nowadays. They were all looking tired and d...

It is surprising, in these days when everybody is an authority on matters of health, how few people there are who can tell you what it really is. The majority, if asked to descr...

By no one sign in particular. One cloud does not make a wet day. It is only when other clouds begin to gather and we feel a certain change in the atmosphere that we surmise that...

The greatest mistake than can be made is to wait for an annual holiday in the expectation that it is going to exonerate us from consequences of eleven months or more of sinning...

There are more tired people in the world to-day than ever before. Nervous exhaustion is taking the place of the old-fashioned stomach-aches and coughs and colds as the prevailin...

Some people expect health, as others expect riches, to fall into their lap. Either because they do not know, or do not care, they prefer to leave their health to look after itse...

Recreation may be divided into games, reading and hobbies. Games occupy a useful part in daily life. Indoor ones form a pleasant way of passing the time, and helping to take the...

The skin plays an important part in eliminating waste products from the system. It does this by means of the sweat-glands, which are found scattered all over the body. These gla...

The strength of a chain lies in its weakest link, and the measure of man’s strength is that of the weak point in his constitution. He may have the frame and muscle of a Sandow,...

The ideal form of rest for body and mind is sleep, for during it the muscles are completely relaxed, the heart beats quietly, the functions of the various organs are suspended t...

An express train was on its way from London to Edinburgh. It was running at sixty miles an hour, and the passengers, as comfortable as if they had been sitting in easy chairs by...

Punctuality at meals is absolutely essential for the maintenance of good health. The stomach gets into the habit of secreting its digestive juices at certain times, as meals fal...

It is not our environment but our state of health which handicaps us. Mark Tapley succeeded in ejaculating “jolly” under the most depressing circumstances. I know nothing as to...

As to the actual amount, there is no guide save that of personal requirements. Some people need more than others, and without any reference to the size of the individual. A litt...

This is even more important than the nature of the food itself. The great majority of digestive troubles are due to the habit of taking food too quickly, and imperfectly mastica...

An express train was standing in a London terminus, on the point of starting for her run to Edinburgh. Several persons were admiring the great locomotive, which was throbbing li...

Differences of constitution. Likes and dislikes. Good and bad cooking. Proteids or meat foods. Meat and gout. Starchy foods. Bread. The saliva. The slow poison of dyspepsia. Egg...

The human furnace always alight. Fresh air and the nervous system. Fresh air in the home. The two-edged sword. Consumption. Common colds. Sitting-rooms and bedrooms. How to obta...

Overwork or want of exercise? Exercise at middle age. Value of exercise. Regularity. Violent exercise. Cramp. Outdoor games, walking, cycling, etc. The pavement walk. Starting i...

Health, not illness, the standard. What health is. The motor-car. The human machinery. Interplay between the various parts. Combustion--Ashes or waste matter, and how got rid of...

Necessity for it. Mental exercise. The cry for young men. Conditions of work. _Before._ Bad effect of hurry. _During._ Hygiene. Noises. Telephone. Bad light. Midday rest. Meals....

Worry, not work, that kills. The effect on the mind. Worry and neurasthenia. How to avoid worry. The influence of the body on the mind. Anticipation. Beset by work. Stimulants....