The mothercraft manual

CHAPTER VIII. CHILD HYGIENE

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I. Bancroft, Jessie H. Posture of School Children. Macmillan. 1913. 327 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.50. Hygiene of posture; exercises for preventing and overcoming defects from wrong posture.

Bigelow, M. A. and Anna N. Applied Biology (Chap. XVII). Chapters on physiology and hygiene.

Bishop, Emily M. Daily Ways to Health. Huebsch. 1910. 310 p. $1.50. Exercises (without apparatus) for vitality, overcoming nervousness, constipation, wrong posture; gaining poise.

Carrington, Thos. S. Fresh Air and How to Use it. Nat. Assn. for Study and Prev. of Tuberculosis. 105 E. 22 St., N. Y. C. 1912. 250 p. Illus. $1.00. Methods of ventilation; window tents, roof bungalows, sleeping porches, tent houses, open-air bungalows; clothing, bedding, furniture for open-air sleeping.

Horsley, Victor and Sturge, Mary D. Alcohol and the Human Body. Macmillan. 1915. 290 p. Illus. Bibl. $.40. Physiological effects of alcohol upon different organs and tissues and upon intelligence; effects of alcohol upon children.

Jewett, Frances G. Gulick Hygiene Series, edited by Luther H. Gulick. Ginn. Book I. Health and Safety. 1916. 189 p. Illus. Bibl. $.40. Book II. Physiology, Hygiene and Sanitation. 1916. 359 p. Illus. Bibl. $.65. Written especially to interest children in hygiene.

Müller, J. P. My System for Children. 1912. 117 p. Illus. $1.25. Physical exercises for children, from infancy.

O’Shea, M. V. and Kellogg, J. H. The Body in Health. Macmillan. 1915. 324 p. Illus. $.65. Written for children, in a way that will naturally interest them in the practice of hygiene.

Sadler, Wm. S. Cause and Cure of Colds. McClurg. 1910. 147 p. Illus. $1.00. How colds may be prevented and how treated.

Short, A. Rendle. The Newer Physiology. Wood. 1915. 266 p. Bibl. $1.00. Treats comprehensively of the new developments in physiology, including digestion, amino acids, vitamines, acidosis; the ductless glands, cerebral localization.

Terman, Lewis M. The Hygiene of the Child. Houghton. 1914. 417 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.75. Hygiene during school age; hygiene of special organs and senses; hygiene of education; a digest of the recently accumulated knowledge of child development and hygiene.

Walker, Emma E. Beauty through Hygiene. Barnes. 1904. 306 p. Illus. $1.00. Hygienic means to physical beauty.

Wood, Thos. D. Health Essentials for Rural School Children. American Medical Assn. Press, Chicago. 1916. 25 p. $.10. Helpful pamphlet for parents and teachers.

Worcester, Elwood and McComb, Samuel. Religion and Health. Grosset. 1910. 425 p. $.75. Use of suggestion and auto-suggestion in preventing and healing of illness, especially fear and nervousness; by the founders of the Emmanuel Movement.

I._b._ Pamphlets issued by practically all of the organizations and institutions listed in III.

Daily Record Schedule Blank. The School of Mothercraft. Set of 31. $.25. Similar to schedule in text, with space for recording.

Weight chart, for birth to 14 years. School of Mothercraft. $.05. Uniform size with those for infancy.

II. American Physical Education Review, Springfield, Mass. $1.50.

Dietetic and Hygiene Gazette, 87 Nassau St., New York $1.00.

Good Health Magazine. Battle Creek, Mich. $2.00.

Journal American Medical Association. Chicago. $5.00. A. M. A. Press.

Outdoor Life. (Anti-tuberculosis.) Outdoor Life Pub. Co. New York, $1.00.

III. American Medical Association. Chicago, Ill. Annual meeting.

American Physical Education Association. Annual Meeting. Springfield, Mass.

American Posture League. 1 Madison Ave., New York. Examines furniture, clothing and apparatus with reference to its effect on posture; issues label to approved articles.

Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C. Research in hygiene, nutrition and medicine. Annual Year Book includes reports of studies.

Home Economics Association. (Chap. III.)

International Congress of Hygiene and Demography. Annual Report includes scientific and popular papers read at annual meeting.

Joint Committee on Hygiene of Amer. Med. Assn. and Nat. Ed. Assn.

Life Extension Institute. 25 W. 45 St., New York. Issues pamphlets, literature, publishes books and bulletins, conducts health examinations.

National Child Welfare Exhibit Association. (Chap. VII.)

National Mental Hygiene Association. 105 E. 22 St., New York. State branches in some States.

Rockefeller Institute, New York. Research work in medicine. Issues report of discoveries made by staff.

Russell Sage Foundation. New York. Conducts surveys and social studies; issues reports of studies, and popular pamphlets.

U. S. Children’s Bureau. (Chap. VII.)

Physical examinations of a very comprehensive and thorough nature are conducted by the following:

Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich., and branches in other localities.

Chicago Physiological Institute, Chicago.

Life Extension Institute, 25 W. 45 St., New York. Has representatives in many localities throughout the country.

(Also Chaps. IV, VI, VII, IX, XX.)