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INTRODUCTORY: (Note: These introductory remarks apply to the entire series of
Informational Hygiene Coursess)

Every educated person should have some measure of ordered knowledge of each of
the main fields of human interests This can best be attained by securing some
degree of mastery in the physical sciences, the social sciences, and the arts.
Hygiene, growing out of the biological sciences, is in part physical and part
social. The application of its principles may well te considered an art. The
study and practice of hygiene should, therefore, form an important part of the
student's general education. The objectives of the ¢ourses in hygiene are to
offer the student an opportunity to understand the basic facts that determine
physical and mental health and of the application of those facts for the benefit
of the individual, his group, and society.

A. OBJECTIVES OF COURSES IN HYGIENE.

The immediate objectives of the courses in hygiene may be indicated under
two heads:

1. The cultivation of discriminating judgement in matters that pertain to
health advice, health service, health literature, and health practices.
The enormous social and economic waste due to unnecessary sickness and
death has been shown in a large percentage of cases to be due to lack
of such judgment in the use of modern scientific means and of avoiding
such misfortunes. Modern medicine and hygiene are based upon scientific
facts. Sound judgment can only be exercised by those who are familiar
with these facts.

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above mentioned facts and of acquiring lasting habits of constructive
hygiene. All of the scientific knowledge in the world will not guarantee
either mental or physical health. To be of real value it must be per-
sonally tested and accepted as a part of your every day health practices.
Yeur hygiene courses are for your use in your college life here and now.
They are practical as well as informational.

2. The practice of a rationa] health program as a_.means of testing the

Be OUTC.ME OF COURSES

The student who desires to acquire a reasonable mastery of the field of
hygiene as a basis for efficient living, should acquire a working knowledge
of ¢ertain basic principles of hygiene and out of them construct for him-
self a health program.

Doctor Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University, has summed up
for us what he considers the minimum knowledge about hygiene that should he
in the possession of every educated individual.

1s You should have a knowledge of the physiological basis for sound health
habits, suth as regular and sufficient hours of sleep, right posture, suit-
able exercise, and proper ¢limination.

ee You should know the types and amounts and proportions of the various food
élements essential to the proper nurture of your bodys

3. You should have an acquaintanee with the principles of nortml mental ac-
tion and the tonditions underlying the more common variations from normal
state of mind. ,