How to Live

How to Live, by Irving Fisher
and Eugene Fisk

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Title: How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern
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Author: Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk
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PREVENT LIFE-WASTE--UPBUILD NATIONAL VITALITY
[Illustration: LIVE! THE LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE INC. NEW

YORK. N. Y. 25 WEST 45th STREET]
Directors
Hon. William H. Taft Henry H. Bowman Francis R. Cooley Robert W.
de Forest Irving Fisher Eugene Lyman Fisk Harold A. Ley Elmer E.
Rittenhouse Charles H. Sabin Frank A. Vanderlip
HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT Chairman, Board of Directors
ELMER E. RITTENHOUSE President
GEN. W. C. GORGAS Consultant, Sanitation
PROF. IRVING FISHER Chairman, Hygiene Reference Board
EUGENE L. FISK, M.D. Director of Hygiene
HAROLD A. LEY Vice-president and Treasurer
JAMES D. LENNEHAN Secretary
The Institute was established by a group of scientists, publicists, and
business men, who desired to provide a self-supporting central
institution of national scope devoted to the science of disease
prevention--a responsible and authoritative source from which the
public might draw knowledge and inspiration in the great war of
civilization against needless sickness and premature death.
LIFE EXTENSION INSTITUTE, Inc. 25 WEST 45th STREET ::
NEW YORK CITY

HOW TO LIVE

[Illustration: Hon. William Howard Taft Chairman, Board of Directors
Life Extension Institute, Inc. COPYRIGHT MOFFETT STUDIO]

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.
BY
IRVING FISHER, Chairman, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL
ECONOMY, YALE UNIVERSITY
AND
EUGENE LYMAN FISK, M.D., DIRECTOR OF HYGIENE OF THE
INSTITUTE
NINTH EDITION
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON
1916

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Printed
in the United States of America.)
* * * * *
Published, October, 1915 Second Edition, November, 1915 Third
Edition, December, 1915 Fourth Edition, March, 1916 Fifth Edition,
April, 1916 Sixth Edition, May, 1916 Seventh Edition, June, 1916
Eighth Revised Edition, September, 1916 Ninth Edition, September,
1916

FOREWORD
To one who has been an eye-witness of the wonderful achievements of
American medical science in the conquest of acute communicable and
pestilential diseases in those regions of the earth where they were
supposed to be impregnably entrenched, there is the strongest possible
appeal in the present rapidly growing movement for the improvement
of physical efficiency and the conquest of chronic diseases of the vital
organs.
Through the patient, intelligent and often heroic work of our army
medical men, and the staff of the United States Public Health Service,
death-rates supposedly fixed have been cut in half.
While it is true that to the public mind there is a more lurid and
spectacular menace in such diseases as small-pox, yellow fever and
plague, medical men and public health workers are beginning to realize
that, with the warfare against such maladies well organized, it is now
time to give attention to the heavy loss from lowered physical
efficiency and chronic, preventable disease, a loss exceeding in
magnitude that sustained from the more widely feared communicable
diseases.
The insidious encroachment of the chronic diseases that sap the vitality
of the individual and impair the efficiency of the race is a matter of
increasing importance. The mere extension of human life is not only in
itself an end to be desired, but the well digested scientific facts
presented in this volume clearly show that the most direct and effective
means of lengthening human life are at the same time those that make it
more livable and add to its power and capacity for achievement.
Many years ago, Disraeli, keenly alive to influences affecting national
prosperity, stated: "Public Health is the foundation on which reposes
the happiness of the people and the power of a country. The care of the
public health is the first duty of a statesman." It may well be claimed
that the care of individual and family health is the first and most
patriotic duty of a citizen.

These are the considerations that have influenced me to co-operate with
the life extension movement, and to commend this volume to the
earnest consideration of all who desire authoritative guidance in
improving their own physical condition or in making effective the
knowledge now available for bringing health and happiness to our