...of our most active medicines are compounded of the same elements which enter into the . composition of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Caloric, or the matter of heat, by diffusing itself among the primary atoms, renders bodies solid,...

...eating, is often startling. Good health, in fact life itself, is dependent upon the amount and quality of the air we breathe — the water we drink and the food we eat. We cannot always command fresh pure air, but we can control what we pat in oar stomachs. Blood has...

...deadening. Custom is often foolish. And both are sometimes degrading. Our bodies are built up from the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Air is pretty much the same for all, rich or poor. So is water. But food is far from being so. And...

...and of humanity would dictate immediate and generous expenditure of public moneys for improving the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, as well as for eliminating the dangers to life and limb which now surround us. Chapter XIII. — The...

...modern ideas as to the relations of health to the conditions of those surroundings of life, namely, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, which so seriously influence it for good or evil, are often received with a smile of incredulity. The...

...State and National work ! The studies in regard to sewage and drainage; the purities and impurities of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; contagion, infection, heredity, zymotic or other influences are being prosecuted day by day with a...

...myriads, and are constantly settling on our skin and mucous membranes, and being taken in with the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, so as to coat our tongue, teeth, respiratory and digestive mucous membranes, and thus get into our...

...myriads, and are constantly settling on our skin and mucous membranes, and being taken in with the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, so as to coat our tongue, teeth, respiratory and digestive mucous membranes, and thus get into our...

...of the body of low forms of animal and vegetable life, introduced by germs which may be found in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. All these might with propriety be termed parasites inasmuch as they live and grow upon other organisms,...

...dead bodies, vegetable and animal swarm with them ; they exist in the soil upon which we walk, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat : in short, wherever, on the surface of the earth the temperature is not constantly below the freezing...