ClothingCh 4: Air: Clothing

Air may be shut out not only by tight houses but also by tight clothes. It follows that the question of clothing is closely related to the question of ventilation. In fact it is a reasonable inference from modern investigations that air-hygiene concerns the skin quite as much as the lungs. Therefore the hygiene of [...]

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HousingCh 2: Air: Housing

How to Live; Rules for Healthful Living: By Irving Fisher, Eugene Lyman Fisk, M.D. Air is the first necessity of life. We may live without food for days and without water for hours; but we cannot live without air more than a few minutes. Our air supply is therefore of more importance than our water [...]

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Introduction: How to Live; Rules for Healthful Living: by Irving Fisher, Eugene Lyman Fisk, M.D.Ch 2: Introduction

How to Live; Rules for Healthful Living:  by Irving Fisher, Eugene Lyman Fisk, M.D. The purpose of the Life Extension Institute embraces the extension of human life, not only as to length, but also, if we may so express it, as to breadth and depth. It endeavors to accomplish this purpose in many ways, but [...]

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Ch 1: forward and preface

By Irving Fisher, Eugene Lyman Fisk, M.D. 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 [...]

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Chapter 16: Yogi Spiritual BreathingChapter 16: Yogi Spiritual Breathing

The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka The Yogis not only bring about desired mental qualities and properties by will-power coupled with rhythmic breathing, but they also develop spiritual faculties, or rather aid in their unfoldment, in the same way. The Oriental philosophies teach that man has many faculties which are at present in [...]

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