Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HEALTH OF THE TEACHER CHAPTER I THE MODERN VIEW OF HEALTH OUDDENLY, as with a start, the teachers of America O have awakened to the truth that one very important subject concerning themselves has been virtually ignored in toto,— that of personal anatomy, physiology and hygiene. And even the teachers who have become awake suspect that what little they know is very, very little compared with the available scientific knowledge of the medical 'profession. Every man, woman and child desires life and yet more life; desires overflowing life, for life is joy, power, self-realization, accomplishment and success, and brings approval from others. We delight in others who are well; and in being well ourselves. Life is surplus energy, more than we need for mere existence; life is radiant. The health of the human cell is the key to life. A living cell is the most marvellous of all things in Nature. It converts what it chooses from its environment into itself and thereby registers life. It chooses and rejects. It grows; it produces one or more cells like itself; it lives its time, whatever that may be, and dies. It thinks; it wills; doubtless, it feels; it certainly works. Cells build all animate creatures including man. Scientists tell us that a normal human body contains three trillion cells,— 3,000,000,000,000; that the spinal cord alone contains four billion cells and the brain seven billion cells, making a total of eleven billion cells,— n,- 000,000,000,— in the main structure of the nervous system. Such numbers are fabulous and incomprehensible. This means that the direct nervous control requires three per cent of all the cells of the body. This, however, does not account for the vast number of nerve cells in the muscular and other tissues, doing a thousand things f...