This book is intended for children. The special object which the author has aimed to accomplish in the preparation of this work are:

To present in a simple manner such anatomical and physiological facts as shall give the child a good fundamental knowledge of the structure and functions of the human body.
To present each topic in such clear and simple language as to enable the child to comprehend the subject matter with little aid from his teacher.
A natural and logical order has been observed in the sequence of topics. Technical terms have been used very sparingly, and only in...

Breakfast. Some of us eat this meal while others skip it. Some of us sit down while others eat on the run. But how many people really know what happens to their food once it slips down their throats?

The Itinerary of a Breakfast gives a "popular account of the travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations through which it passes, also the obstacles which it sometimes meets." Authored by the creator of the corn flake and namesake of some of our most popular breakfast cereals, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg describes in detail each process of the digestive...

1. This book was written to present a careful and candid account of the nature of water and its physiological effects. 2. To Explain the effects of water when used as a remedy for disease and to demonstrate its value as a remedial agent. 3. To show that the employment of water in the treatment of disease has been practiced by the most eminent physicians of all ages and is not a modern discovery. 4. To expose those absurd and erroneous practices which have brought the use of water as a remedy into disrepute and have thus deterred scientific physicians from adopting it.