Volume 5

Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee.

Date:
1912-1913
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE GROUP 7- HEALTH THE ONE NATURAL FOOD The National Need for an Ample and Safeguarded Supply of Pure Milk 2993 IN PRAISE OF PLAIN BREAD An Examination of the Cereals, and a Comparison of Their Different Food Values 3115 SOME PROBLEMS OF DIET What We Should Eat, and When and How We Should Eat It 3231 ANIMAL FLESH AS FOOD An Impartial Survey of the Controversy Between Meat- Eaters and Vegetarians 3353 DANGER OF EXCESS IN DIET A Discussion of Modern Theories as to What Should he Eaten, and How It Should he Eaten 3475 THE PATHWAY OF OUR FOOD The Need for Establishing Rules for the Regular, Uncon scious Working of the Body’s Mechanism 3591 GROUP 8—POWER THE MARVELS OF SPEED The Power Derived from Quickening the Pace of Work, Travel, and Communications 3001 THE CONQUEST OF DECAY Man’s Battles With the Microbes for the Preservation of His Food 3123 THE MARVELLOUS X-RAY How Man Broke Up the Atom and Discovered a Strange, New, Radiant Power 3239 MODERN WEATHER WISDOM The Difficulties and Problems of Tracking Storms Across the Oceans 3361 THE SUN AS ARTIST The Wonderful Powers of Vision that Have Been Derived from the Camera 3483 THE POWER OF STEAM Recent Revolutionary Improvements in the Principle and Construction of Steam Engines 3599 GROUP 9—INDUSTRY MARVELS OF GLASS-MAKING Windows Through Which We Gaze on the Inner and Outer Universe 3019 THE FUR AND FEATHERS TRADE The Astonishing Modern Developments in the Most Ancient of All Industries 3139 THE DAIRY INDUSTRIES How the Vigorous Lactic Germs are Controlled and Set to Work 3255 SPANNING THE WATERS The Story of the Modern Development of the Indis pensable Science of Bridge-Building 3375 THE BUILDING OF SHIPS How the Steel Shell of a Modern Liner is Constructed by Huge Machines 3499 BREAKFAST BEVERAGES How Science Enables the European Planters to Excel the Native Cultivators 3613 PAGE GROUP 10—COMMERCE WEALTH AND WELL-BEING The True Nature of Wealth, and the End and Aim of Human Effort in Trade and Industry 3033 THE MAKING OF WEALTH How Industry and Trade have Always Been Checked by Under-Consumption 3155 THE SOURCES OF WEALTH The Necessary Parts Played ly Land, Capital, and Labour in the Production of Wealth 3273 LABOUR AND WEALTH How the*Progressive Economy of Labour is the Only Means of Increasing the Supply of Commodities 3393 THE RISE OF CO-OPERATION The Reconciliation of Individual Enterprise with Co- Operative Effort in the Production of Wealth 3517 COMBINATION AND MONOPOLY The Use and Abuse of Large-Scale Trading, and Its Relation to National Wealth 3633 GROUP 11—SOCIETY A SOUND USE OF THE LAWS The Need for Co-Operation Between the Central Governing Body and Local Authorities 3043 CITIZENSHIP AS A STUDY The Importance of the Public Understanding Public Rights, Privileges, and Duties 3163 SOCIETY AND DISEASE The Growth of Public Care for the Health of All for the Sake of All 3283 PUBLIC HEALTH TO COME A Plea for the Complete Organisation of the Health of the Whole Nation, from Birth to Death 3403 SOCIETY AND CRIME The Making of the Unsocial Ishmaelite and the Problem of His Punishment 3525 RECLAMATION FROM CRIME The Modern Attempts by Society to Remove from Itself the Reproach of Neglecting Criminality 3643 GROUP 12-EUGENICS FROM GALTON TO ELLEN KEY The Inevitable Failure of Any Attempt to Make a General Application of Eugenic Control 3049 EUGENICS THROUGH LOVE The Life of Ellen Key, and Her Writings on Love, Marriage, and Divorce 3139 THE EUGENICS CONGRESS A Summary of the Points Discussed at the World’s First Great Conference on Eugenics 3291 THE HANDICAP ON FAMILIES The Need for the Realisation of the Claims of the Race Upon the Individual Through Marriage 3409 A STUDY OF UNWORTH Is Mankind Degenerating Through the Propagation and Preservation of the Diseased and Unfit ? 3531 THE CARE OF DEFECTIVES Problems which are Forced on Mankind by Hereditaiy Insanity and Hereditary Feeble-Mindedness 3649