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Personal hygiene and physical training for women

Chapter 1: PERSONAL HYGIENE AND PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR WOMEN
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The work presents practical guidance for women's physical well-being, combining physiological explanation and preventive measures. It opens with assessments of physical efficiency, then details hydrotherapy and bathing, skin and appendage care, digestion and nutrition with dietary tables, and the mechanics of respiration, circulation, and elimination. It emphasizes exercise—gymnastics, outdoor sports, and dance—for development and maintenance of strength, and addresses clothing, tonic baths, and hygienic practices across stages of life. Advice aims to strengthen tissues, promote resistance to disease, and translate scientific principles into daily routines.

PERSONAL HYGIENE
AND
PHYSICAL TRAINING
FOR WOMEN

BY
ANNA M. GALBRAITH, M.D.

Author of “Hygiene and Physical Culture for Women” and “The Four Epochs of Woman’s Life;” Member of the New York County and State and the American Medical Associations; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; Ex-President of the Alumnæ Association, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; former Attending Physician, Neurological Department, of the New York Orthopædic Hospital and Dispensary; late Attending Physician and Instructor in Diagnosis and Clinical Medicine at the Woman’s Medical College, New York Infirmary

SECOND EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY
1916