Part 1

GOOD HEALTH AND HOW WE WON IT

“THE BATTLE OF THE BLOOD”

Micro-photograph of leucocytes (white and grayish bodies) in conflict with Germs (black dots and bodies). In Fig. A the germ is that of influenza, in Fig. B that of plague.]

GOOD HEALTH AND HOW WE WON IT

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW HYGIENE

BY UPTON SINCLAIR AND MICHAEL WILLIAMS

WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

I. THE BATTLE OF THE BLOOD 21

II. HOW TO EAT: THE GOSPEL OF DIETETICS ACCORDING TO HORACE FLETCHER 41

III. THE YALE EXPERIMENTS 69

IV. HOW DIGESTION IS ACCOMPLISHED 95

V. HOW FOODS POISON THE BODY 113

VI. SOME IMPORTANT FOOD FACTS 127

VII. HOW OFTEN SHOULD WE EAT 145

VIII. HEALTH AND THE MIND 159

IX. THE CASE AS TO MEAT 173

X. THE CASE AGAINST STIMULANTS 193

XI. DIET REFORM IN THE FAMILY 203

XII. BREATHING AND EXERCISE 219

XIII. BATHING AND CLEANLINESS 239

XIV. A UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH 258

XV. HEALTH REFORM AND THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED 274