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You know exercise is good for you - but do you know how good?
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Exercise
The road to health does not involve the cultivation of enormous muscles. Innumerable systems of exercise have been exalted as leading to healthfulness. All sorts of extraordinary springs, bicycles, walking machines, dumbbells, and similar ...
Family Medicine Chest
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Among the strange items found in a half-dozen family medicine chests were old cloths to be used as bandages, cracked atomizer bulbs, horehound candy, shoehorns, curling irons, dried sponges, packages of seeds, hair grease, mange ...
What You Need To Know About Tranquilizing Drugs
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
When Sir William Osler made his valedictory address to the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, he chose the subject "Aequanimitas." He said, "In the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability." Then he ...
Diagnosis Of Cancer And Treatment
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Some of the methods that have been used for centuries are still valuable in detecting cancer, but modem medicine has developed many new techniques for aiding diagnosis of disease.
One of the most important single ...
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Symptoms And Prevention
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Between 1908 and 1912, clinics for the care of venereal disease were packed with sufferers from all ranks of society; whispers circulated in the dormitories of the colleges about students whose entire careers had been ...
Cancer – Suspicious Symptoms, Diagnostic Tests And Research
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Cancer is wild, unrestrained growth of cells. Some disturbance occurs which disrupts the balance of cells of different kinds in the body. The cells seem to return to their primitive state or to the infantile ...
Protect Your Liver From Infectious Hepatitis
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Infectious hepatitis is an infectious disease caused by a virus. Formerly the condition was simply called jaundice; now we know that catarrhal jaundice is produced by an inflammation of the liver resulting from an attack ...
Immunity Or Resistance To Infection
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
When living organisms such as germs or viruses invade the human body, the tissues of the body undergo changes which help them to resist the poisons of the invader. By this reaction the tissues become ...
Steps To Take When You Have Fever And Infection
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Fever
By far the vast majority of instances of fever result from infection. There are, however, cases in which fever occurs and in which the exact cause cannot be easily determined. Certain principles have been ...
Most Common Lung Infections
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Pneumonia was once one of the most feared of all human diseases. Its death rate was about a third of all those whom it attacked. The germ that caused it is one called a "pneumococcus" ...
Effects Of Dangerous Physical Forces On The Body
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Heat
The human being suffers a variety of reactions when exposed to high temperatures. Usually there are three different forms of this reaction. They are called "heat cramps," "heat exhaustion" and "heat stroke." They may ...
Are You Having Male Sex Gland Problems?
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
The Sex Glands
The glands of sex serve a double function: they provide the necessary materials for reproduction of the human being, the male sex cell uniting with the female sex cell; they also provide ...
Symptoms And Types Of Connective Tissue Disease
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
Four rather unusual and rare diseases are now being grouped together by medical investigators as a result of information derived from recent research. Their names, which are little known to the public, are polyarteritis nodosa, ...
The Main Symptoms Of Disease
By David Crawford · 14 years ago
When people consult the doctor they do so because they have had feelings and sensations that are disturbing and uncomfortable. Perhaps they have had reactions in various portions of the body which are quite different ...