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Title: How to live : rules for healthful living based on modern science : authorized by and prepared in collaboration with the Hygiene Reference Board of the Life Extension Institute, Inc.
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947 Fisk, Eugene Lyman, 1867-1931 Life Extension Institute
Subjects: Hygiene Public health
Publisher: New York and London : Funk & Wagnalls
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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ul conditions of living, but on everyside we see evidences of the fact that wecannot entirely control conditions of healththrough hygiene only. Not all maladies byany means can be attributed to unnatural orunhygienic conditions of living. It is truethat if followed out faithfully, the rules ofhygiene will enable a man to live out his maxi-mum natural life-span, with the maximum ofwell-being, and to run no risk of allowing anyinherent weakness to be brought out. Butsome persons, even if they followed what isvery nearly the normal code for the humanbeing, would scarcely be able to avoid direphysical and mental fates. In short, we findthat besides the hygienic factor in life whichwe may call environment, there is somethingelse on which the health of the individual de-pends. This something else is heredity, orthe nature of the breed. Back of all theindividual can do by hygiene lies his inheri-tance. To change this the individual can donothing, but the parents of the individual can ( 164 )
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jm gy Mr. William J. Harris • *6.) HYGIENE IN GENERAL affect his inheritance, and we as parents canaffect the inheritance of our offspring. First, we can carry through life uninjured Trustees of thethe essential germ plasm which has been en- Ge?m-Piasmtrusted to our care. We should never forgetthat this germ plasm, which we receive andtransmit, really belongs, not to us, but to therace; and that we have no right, through al-coholic or other unhygienic practises, to dam-age it; but that, on the contrary, we are underthe most solemn obligation to keep it up to thehighest level within our power. We are thetrustees of the racial germ plasm that wecarry. Second, we can affect the life of our off- wise i . . . m-. , . Combinations spring by our choice m marriage. The basis of Germinalof the development of desirable or undesir-able tendencies or traits lies, of course, in themating from which the individual springs. Onthe kind of combinations of germinal traitsthat are made by marriage dep

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