This section is from the book "Bepler's Handy Manual of Knowledge And Useful Infomation", by David Bepler. Also available from Amazon: Bepler's Handy Manual of Knowledge and Useful Information.
1. Pure air is the food of the lungs. This is obtained by scientific ventilation, which consists in admitting currents or movements of air in the apartments through two or more apertures.
2. Good and properly cooked food, not food seasoned to cover up decay, partial or complete.
3. Water, not iced, but cooled by being placed upon ice, either in pitchers or bottles.
4. Adequate exercise in the open air, in order to help the skin throw off effete matter.
5. The sun bath. No sitting or reading in darkened rooms, or those lighted by gas. Gas burns up oxygen very rapidly. Sitting under a gas jet turns the hair gray, and by overheating' the scalp destroys its vitality, and causes the hair to fall out.
6. Proper and sufficient clothing: that which is loose, light and warm. Light colors for Summer, and dark for Winter. In Winter wear a flannel bandage around the abdomen.
7. Occupations which are of an outdoor character; eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for rest.
8. Personal cleanliness is essential. Bathe once a week. Baths to be of the same temperature as the body. Bathing enables the skin to throw off effete matters, causing the dead and useless epidermis to peel off.
9. No marriage with a near relative.
10. Avoid wine, whiskey, beer and tobacco. Keep thy soul and body clean.
 
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