Ablutions, internal and external, 60–63.

Abortion, frequency of, among tobacco workers, 80.

Agriculture, revival of, essential to sound living, 133; difficulties of succeeding in this, 133; large scale reconstruction required to revive, 134, 136; difficulty of "directing" labour to, 138.

Ale, the old, of England and Egypt recommended, 130.

Alexander, F. M., his difficulties in advancing his doctrine, 14; on ill-health being due to faulty co-ordination, 31, 41; defects corrected by, 42, 43; originator of technique for correct use of self, 140; his technique applicable to all activities, 145; accuses modern humanity of being faulty users of their organisms, 147; failure to acknowledge, by orthodox authorities, 148, 149; his discoveries confirmed by orthopædic surgeons, 149, 150; how to acquire his technique, 150, 151; his books recommended, 152.

Alexander, Dr. F. W., on germicidal power of tobacco, 70; on the effect of different kinds of smoking, 72; on "furfural" as possible generator of cancer, 72, 73.

Aperients, to be avoided, 62.

Armstrong-Jones, Sir Robert, on tobacco-smoking, 70.

Atlantic Charter, the, aims at unrestricted trade throughout the world, 136, 137.

Atwater, on proteins, 95.

Babies, over-sized, born owing to sitomania of mothers, 91; their need of protein, 97; ill effects of devitalized milk on, 115, 117.

Balfour, Lady Eve, on return to the land, 133n; not wholly guiltless of "fragmentation", 139.

Baths, devitalizing, 60.

Baumberger, Dr., found smoking impaired endurance of telegraph workers, 76.

Bennett, Dr. Izod, on tobacco as cause of duodenal ulcer, 71, 72.

Beri-beri, caused by polished rice, 115.

Bircher-Benner, Dr., his sound diet, 37; on soil-poisoning, 125; his diet in relation to intake of liquids, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131.

Bogen, Dr., on relation of breast-cancer to birth-rate, 88.

Boyd, Dr., his estimate of protein requisites, 98.

Bread, is main food of the poor, 118; importance of wholemeal, 119; we must expect most of it to come from abroad, 137.

Breast-feeding, defect due to lack of, 3; best form of nourishment for infants, 87, 88; reduces mortality in infants, 88n.

Breathing, adequate, essential to health, 49–57; "deep" breaths occasionally taken no substitute for, 52, 53; suspended in times of thought and suspense, 54, 55; inadequate, encouraged by modern sedentary occupations, 55.

Brown, Dr. Lloyd T., confirms Alexander's discoveries, 149.

"Bugs", fallacy of ascribing disease to, 4–7.

Butter, superiority of New Zealand summer, 119.

Byron, on breathlessness in times of emotion, 55n.

Calcium, in human and cow's milk, 86; vitamin D's dependence on, 106.

Calories, amount of, required, 122.

Cancer, (carcinoma), skin, due to over-exposure to sunlight, 57; liquid paraffin may be a cause of, 63; also motor fumes, 74; of the breast nine times greater in England than Japan, 88; relation of breast, to birth-rate, 88; death from breast, rapidly rising, 88; due to random breeding, 92n.

Carbohydrates, amount required by average man, 113.

Carbon Monoxide, average saturation of blood with, 74.

Carver, Dr., found smoking lowers accuracy of finely co-ordinated reactions, 76.

Catarrh, due to sugar, 112, 113.

Chair, the most atrocious institution hygienically of civilized life, 144n.

Chalmers Mitchel, Sir Peter, on necessity for roughage in food, 94.

Chalmers Watson, on sugar and its bad effects, 111, 112.

Cheese, not harmful in itself, 94.

Chittenden, protested against excessive dosage of proteins, 96, 97, 98.

Children, good diet essential for, 82; do not thrive on ordinary English diet, 83; breast-fed, healthy, 88n; ill-health among, owing to poor diet, 89; eat too much sugar, 111, 112.

Christianity, its deplorable influence on diet, 104, 105.

Clarke, Dr., found smoking impaired scholarship, 75.

Clothing, its importance to health, 45, 82.

Coghill, Prof. G. E., on the atrocious institution of the chair, 144n.

Cold, in English and Scottish homes a cause of internal filth, 61.

Conscious Control, see F. M. Alexander.

Consciousness, essential to modern man, 145; a double-edged sword, 145.

Constipation, a cause of internal filth, 62; aperients to be avoided in dealing with, 62; causes of, 63–68; Freudian explanation of, 64; suggested cures for, 64, 65; due to lack of roughage, 102.

Cooking, deleterious effects of, 121.

Coolies, the strength of Indian and Chinese, 103.

Co-ordination, faulty, see F. M. Alexander; essential if Physical Training is not to be deleterious, 60; vicious, a cause of constipation, 66.

Cream, should not be whipped, 120.

Crew, Dr., on ill-effects of random breeding, 25, 28.

Darwin, Charles, on instinct to segregate among animals, 20, 21; on degeneracy caused by random breeding, 29n.

Davenport, ascribes crime and insanity to random breeding, 32.

Degeneracy, National Health Campaign inadequate to deal with, 11; caused by random breeding, 29n; a cause of plural births, 29n.

Diabetes, due to random breeding, 28; alarming increase of, 113.

Dionysus, introduced wine as a corrective to cooked food, 129.

Diet, fallacy of conventional criticism of reformed, 83–85; standardization of, in England, 84; ill-health in children through poor, 89; excess of protein in modern, 96; of Eastern coolies, ancient Greek wrestlers and Roman gladiators, 103, 104; table salt unnecessary for sound, 107; optimal, discussed, 121–125.

Diseases, various, should inspire only contempt, 2; due to parental ignorance, 2n.

Dixon, Prof. W. E. denies that tobacco is a germicide, 70.

Doctor, his difficulties in dealing with patients, 4–7; the right way for him to treat disease, 5–6;

Dodds, Dr., on amount of exercise necessary for dealing with over-eating, 104.

Drink, insufficient, a cause of constipation, 66; dangers of excessive, 66; sometimes advisable, 67; advice on, 125–127; alcoholic, advice on, 128, 129, 131; low alcoholic content of, in nourishing communities, 129.

Duodenal ulcer, various authorities on tobacco as cause of, 71, 72.

East Anglia, hard life of farm labourers in, 133, 135.

England, no elimination of the ill-constituted in, 39; over-exposure to sunlight rare in, 57; purse-consciousness aggressive in, 60; fuss about external cleanliness and neglect of internal cleanliness in, 61; nobody thrives on ordinary diet of, 83; diet in, completely standardized, 84; becoming a bottle-fed nation, 87; and Wales have highest mortality from breast cancer, 88; bad feeding of children in, 89; bad eating habits in, 95; a nation of sitomaniacs, 105.

English, the, once a standardized and good-looking people, 21; now random bred, 35, 26, 30.

English women, absurdly late marriage age of, 45; low percentage of, who suckle their babies, 87, 88; failure to suckle their babies injurious to, 88; cancer of the breast very high among, 88; danger to, from failure to breast-feed, 89.

Erasmus, on the beauty of English people in the sixteenth century, 21n.

Exercise, adequate bodily, essential to health, 57–60; mechanization destructive of, 58; good or bad according to the strains imposed, 59; should be regular, 65.

Fish, not harmful in itself, 94; value of, 123, 124.

"Fragmentation", the charge of, confuted, 131, 139; Dr. Wrench and others guilty of, 37, 38, 139.

Freudians, the, argue that constipation is due partly to an analerotic complex, 64.

Goitre, increased by use of common salt, 110.

Goldthwait, Dr. J. E., confirms Alexander's discoveries, 149.

Greenborg, Dr. L. A., on carbon-monoxide poisoning in New York, 74.

Habits, importance of training body to regular, 65, 66.

Haggard, Dr. H. W., on carbon-monoxide poisoning in New York, 74.

Harding, Dr., on over-eating during pregnancy, 92.

Hardy, Thomas, on former beauty of the English people, 21n.

Harrison, Dr. T. R., on effect of smoking on the respiratory function, 70, 71.

Health, rare in civilized state, 1, 33; conditions essential to, 7; biological attitude to Man essential for, 9, 10; adequate breathing essential for, 49; adequate bodily exercise essential for, 57–59; deleterious effect of motor cars on, 58, 59; normal sexual life essential for, 82.

Healthy food, fallacy of regarding, as panacea, vii, 29, 31, 33; merely means of continuing original desirable state, 47.

Heart-disease, in childhood, 2n.

Hirsch, Dr. Max, on deleterious effects of tobacco on women, 80.

Hirschsprung's disease, due to random breeding, 28.

Horder, Lord, on sitomania, 91.

Hunza, the, set up as model by Dr. Wrench, 34–49; some babies not breast fed among, 39; these are allowed to die, 40; a standardized type, 44; few admirers of, have ever seen them, 48n; romantic to recommend diet of, 131; impossible to make Western food come up to Hunza standards, 136; impossible to establish Hunza ideal here, 137; advice to imitate, valueless to Englishmen, 138.

Hygieia, Goddess of Health, vii.

Inheritance, independent, of bodily parts, 23–28.

Initial endowment, impossible for individual to control, 7; rough measures in primitive societies to control, 8; "Physical Training" cannot compensate for bad, 10–11; not to be confounded with results of life-routine, 12, 13; prime essential for good, discussed, 13–33; good, first prerequisite of a healthy life, 31, 46.

Instinct, an unreliable guide to-day, 132.

Japanese, the, a standardized people advised by Herbert Spencer not to cross-breed, 25; low incidence of breast cancer among, 88.

Johnson, Dr. Wingate M., on tobacco smoking, 71; on the highly nervous individual and tobacco smoking, 76; provides comfort for resolute women smokers, 81.

Kant, Emmanuel, insisted on solitary walks in order to nose-breathe, 59.

Labouchere, Henry, a heavy smoker, 69.

Lahmann, Dr., his study of mother's milk, 95, 96, 97; on mineral salts, 105, 106; on deleterious effects of common salt, 108, 109.

Langdon Brown, Sir Walter, on the preservation of harmful mutations, 39, 40, 41.

Lecithin, in human and cow's milk, 86, 87.

Lenz, Dr., condemns use of common salt, 109, 110.

Lewellin, Colonel, not concerned with making Britain self-supporting, 136.

Lickint, on tobacco smoking and cancer, 73; his examination of old men smokers, 74, 75.

Liebig, on proteins, 95, 100.

Liver, calf's, the cooking of, 118.

"Love", should not justify unhealthy mating, 8, 9; flagrant instance of deplorable "love" union, 10n.

Lubricating oils, deleterious effects of, on the intestines, 62, 63.

Lundborg, on the effects of cross-breeding, 24, 32.

Macleod, on sucrose in urine, 112.

MacWilliams, Prof. J. A., fails to refer to Alexander, 149.

Magnus, Prof. R., confirmed Alexander's claims, 148.

Margarine, lacks vitamins, 114, 115.

Mating, reliable knowledge of sound, does exist, 12.

McCarrison, sir Robert, his advice on drinking criticized, 126; a "fragmentationist", 139.

McIlroy, dame Louise, on over-eating during pregnancy, 91, 92.

Mead, drunk on festive occasions, 129, 130.

Meat, far too much now eaten, 93; not harmful in itself, 94; loses value through cooking, 121; occasional meal of, harmless, 124.

Mendenhall, Prof. W. L., on smoking, 78.

Menu, etymology of, 90, 91.

Milk, of mammals not interchangeable, 85, 86; constituent of human, 86; Lahmann's analysis of human, 95, 96; his calculations based on cow's, 105; mineral salts in this, 105; only, untampered with retains vitamins unimpaired, 119.

Milk factories, women largely responsible for developments of, 135.

Mineral salts, value of, 105; Lahmann on, 105, 106; Ragnar Berg on, 106; where found, 105, 106, 107.

Mjoen, attributes diabetes possibly to random breeding, 28.

Monkeys, feeding of, 94, 101, 102.

Moleschott, on proteins, 95.

Motor car, the, destructive of health, 58, 59; fumes from, as possible cause of cancer, 74.

Moynihan, Dr., on tobacco as cause of duodenal ulcer, 71, 72.

Nationalism, anathema to the United Nations, 137.

Nixon, Dr., on requisite protein ration, 100; on value of mineral salts, 107; on sugar and its bad effects, in, 112; on carbohydrates, 113.

Northborune, Lord, on "return to the land", 133n, 135; a "fragmentationist", 139.

Nose-breathing, should be cultivated, 54; essential during exercise, 59; Kant insisted on, 59.

Obesity, promoted by sugar, 112.

Over-eating, see sitomania.

Pantoni, Dr., on disinfectant action of tobacco, 70.

Paton, Dr. J. H. P., on disquieting increase in sugar consumption, 112; and its ill-effects, 113.

Pelvis, android, in women, 40n.

Physical Training, deleterious unless bodily co-ordination has been achieved, 60.

Plague, the Great, disinfectant use of tobacco during, 70.

Plural births, probably due to degeneracy, 29n.

Poor, the, skins of, healthy owing to not being over-washed, 60.

Portsmouth, Earl of, his Alternative to Death quoted, 137n; not a "fragmentationist", 139n.

Price, Dr. F. W., on tobacco as cause of duodenal ulcer, 71, 72.

Progress, in stupidity undeniable, 87.

Prometheus, inaugurated cooking, 129, 130.

Protein, discarded theories about, 95; Liebig, Voit and others on, 95; proportion of, in human milk, 96; excessive, in ordinary diet, 96; expenditure of, in

exercise, 97; excess of, for adults, 97; various estimates of requisite, ration, 98; dangers of exceeding requisite ration of, 99; amount of, required, 122.

"Pulmonary taste", rare to-day, 51, 52.

Puritanism, and Luxurious Living different aspects of same medal, 128.

Purse-consciousness, in England leads to ill-health through over-washing, 60.

Ragnar Berg, his estimate of requisite protein ration, 98; allows small increase of this for reproduction, 99; on value of mineral salts, 106; on deleterious effects of common salt, 108, 109.

Random breeding, inevitably produces ill-health, 15–33; bad results of, eliminated in a natural state, 18; results of, in England, 19; also accounts for "mental" unbalance, 32; intensified by modem transport facilities, 33.

Repletion, how to secure sense of, after eating, 92, 93; ill-effects of not experiencing, 93, 94.

Ridgeway, Prof. W., on bodily measurements used by standardized stocks, 22, 23.

Rosslyn Earp, Dr., on the superior scholarship of non-smokers, 75.

Rose, Dr., his estimate of requisite protein ration, 98.

Roughage, (bulk), necessity for, in food discussed, 93, 94, 100, 102, 103; why it is valuable, 102.

Ruggles Gates, on some results of random breeding, 26, 27.

Rural life, hardships of, 133, 134.

Sailors, corrective diet for, 115n.

Salt, (sodium chloride), wholly artificial adjunct to sound diet, 107; only adopted when evoking became general, 107; various people who never used, 108; increases osmosis, 109; ills due to, 108–110.

Salter, Dr. E. G., on beauty of the English in the sixteenth century, 21n.

Scholarship, superior, of non-smokers, 75.

Self, the, correct use of, 41–43, 140; Nature not adequate guide in this, 141, 142; conscious control necessary for this, 142, 143; essential for adequate breathing, 146.

Shaw, Bernard, his regrettable use of authority gained by material success, 33n.

Sherman, his estimate of requisite protein ration, 98.

Sihle, Prof. Martin, on the average modern westerner's defects, 35, 36, 41, 42.

Sitomania, (over-eating), prevalence of, 91; child-bed casualties due to, 91; Lord Horder on, 91; punishes child as well as mother, 92; due to eating too much high class protein, 92; Dr. Dodds on, 104.

Sleep, daytime amount of fresh air not required during, 53, 54.

Socratic values, unhealthy influence of, 1; have destroyed attempts at sound mating, 8; destroy biological attitude towards Man, 9.

Sontag, Dr., on effects of smoking on pregnant women, 80.

Soul, the, disproportionate emphasis on, destructive of health, 14.

Spencer, Herbert, 16; his advice to Japanese not to cross-breed, 25; on mixed breeding, 26.

Spinks, Dr. A. F., on England becoming a bottle-fed nation, 87.

Standardization, body measurements as evidence of, 22; essential to health, 23; difficulty of achieving, 47; prevalent among animals, 143, 144; of right use of self not established among men, 144, 145.

Steinbach, E., on salt, 108.

Stupidity, progress in, undeniable, 87.

Sugar, a recent commodity, no; not a natural food, 111; statistics of consumption of, 111; various authorities on ill-effects of, 111, 112; rationing of, beneficial to the eyes, 112; induces catarrh, 112; possibly connected with cancer death-rate, 113; retards passage of food through stomach, 114.

Sunlight, importance of, 55; vitamin D a substitute for, 56; danger of too much, 56, 57; necessary for milch cows, 115.

Swain, Dr. Laing T., confirms Alexander's discoveries, 149.

Sweating, excessive, a cause of constipation, 63; need for vigilance regarding, 67, 68.

Talbot, Dr., 16; on connexion between degeneracy and plural births, 29n.

Tobacco, a disinfectant, 70; used as incense, 70; a protection against cholera and pneumonia, 70; expenditure on, 70.

Tobacco-smoking, discussed, 68–82; its close association with the Puritans, 68; its social value, 68; 40,000,000,000 cigarettes smoked yearly in the United Kingdom, 69; as a possible cause of cancer, 73, 74; causes increase in concentration of blood-sugar, 76; effect of, on women, 79–82.

Toddler, the, feeding of, in England deplorable, 89.

Trousers, devitalizing effect of, 60.

Tryptophan, in human and cow's milk, 86, 87.

Turley, Dr. F. C., on effect of smoking on the respiratory function, 70, 71.

Tyrell-Gray, Dr., on tobacco as cause of duodenal ulcer, 71, 72.

Unbehann, Dr., on disorders in female tobacco workers, 79.

Vierordt, on proteins, 95.

Vitamin D, a substitute for sunlight, 56; sources of, 57.

Vitamins, discussed, 114–121; various diseases due to lack of, 115; the various, 116, 117.

Wales, England and, have highest mortality from breast cancer, 88.

Wallace, Dr., on effects of smoking on pregnant women, 80.

Warren, C. Henry, on impossibility of growing sufficient corn in Britain, 137.

Weil, Philip, fails to refer to Alexander, 149.

Williams, Dr. Whitridge, on over-eating during pregnancy, 92.

Women, bad effect of late first child-birth on, 45; effect of tobacco on, 79 81; effect of artificial feeding of their infants on, 88, 89; badly fed, lose teeth in pregnancy, 106; have helped to swell exodus to towns, 135.

Wrench, Dr. G, T., his Wheel of Health discussed and criticized, 34–49; has no first-hand knowledge of Alexander's technique, 42, 43; suggests that the Hunza are a standardized type, 44; his charge of "fragmentation", 131; himself guilty of it, 37, 38, 139.

Wrestlers, strength of ancient Greek, 103.

Wyck, Dr., on over-eating during pregnancy, 92.

Zoroaster, quoted, 79.