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Campbell, Helen Stuart, 1839-1918

"The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes"

Dry as such details may seem, they are the
only key to a full understanding of the body, and the laws of the body, so
far as the food-supply is concerned; though you will quickly find that the
day's food means the day's thought and work, well or ill, and that in your
hands is put a power mightier than you know,--the power to build up body,
and through body the soul, into a strong and beautiful manhood and
womanhood.

ELEMENTS OF THE HUMAN BODY.
---------------------------------------------------------|------|-----|-----
| Lbs. | Oz. | Grs.
---------------------------------------------------------|------|-----|-----
1. Oxygen, a gas, and supporter of combustion, | | |
weighs | 103 | 2 | 335
| | |
2. Carbon, a solid; found most nearly pure in charcoal. | | |
Carbon in the body combines with other | | |
elements to produce carbonic-acid gas, and by | | |
its burning sets heat free. Its weight is | 18 | 11 | 150
| | |
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