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The Child's Day
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Title: The Child's Day
Author: Woods Hutchinson
Release Date: June 11, 2006 [EBook #18559]
Language: English
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[Illustration: A GOOD SPORT FOR GIRLS AND BOYS]
THE WOODS HUTCHINSON HEALTH SERIES
THE CHILD'S DAY
BY
WOODS HUTCHINSON, A.M., M.D.
Sometime Professor of Anatomy, University of Iowa; Professor of Comparative Pathology and Methods of Science Teaching, University of Buffalo; Lecturer, London Medical Graduates' College and University of London; and State Health Officer of Oregon. Author of "Preventable Diseases," "Conquest of Consumption," "Instinct and Health," and "A Handbook of Health."
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY WOODS HUTCHINSON
FOREWORD
"If youth only knew, if old age only could!" lamented the philosopher. What is the use, say some, of putting ideas about disease into children's heads and making them fussy about their health and anxious before their time?
Precisely because ideas about disease are far less hurtful than disease itself, and because the period for richest