| PART I—THE FIGHT FOR HEALTH |
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| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | Constant Danger of Illness | 1 |
| II. | The Necessity of Caring for the Body | 4 |
| III. | How Clothing Affects Health | 9 |
| IV. | The Uses of Food | 14 |
| V. | Care of Food—Meats | 18 |
| VI. | Care of Food—Milk | 22 |
| VII. | Decomposition of Food | 30 |
| VIII. | Harm Done by Improper Cooking | 34 |
| IX. | How Neatness, Cheerfulness, and Good Manners Promote Health | 37 |
| X. | Dangers from Poor Teeth | 41 |
| XI. | Necessity for Pure Air and how to Secure it | 45 |
| XII. | Rest Essential to Health | 51 |
| XIII. | Care of the Eye and Ear | 56 |
| XIV. | Care of the Skin | 60 |
| XV. | Common Poisons to be Avoided | 64 |
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| PART II—THE ENEMIES OF HEALTH |
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| XVI. | Disease Germs | 73 |
| XVII. | Encouragement of Disease by Uncleanly Habits | 75 |
| XVIII. | Flies as Carriers of Disease | 79 |
| XIX. | How Disease Germs get into Water | 85 |
| XX. | Transmission of Disease through the Air | 89 |
| XXI. | Insects as Carriers of Disease | 92 |
| XXII. | How to Keep Germs out of Wounds | 95 |
| XXIII. | Transmission of Diphtheria | 100 |
| XXIV. | The Cure of Diphtheria | 108 |
| XXV. | How Typhoid Fever Germs are Carried | 113 |
| XXVI. | Hookworm Disease and Amoebic Dysentery | 120 |
| XXVII. | How Scarlet Fever is Carried | 123 |
| XXVIII. | Measles and Whooping Cough Dangerous Diseases | 128 |
| XXIX. | How Smallpox is Prevented | 131 |
| XXX. | Why Vaccination Sometimes seems a Failure | 138 |
| XXXI. | Consumption, the Great White Plague | 142 |
| XXXII. | How Consumption is Spread and how Prevented | 150 |
| XXXIII. | How Consumption is Cured | 157 |
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