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Walter V. Woods

An early 20th-century physician who wrote practical, everyday advice about staying well, he focused on habits ordinary readers could actually use. His best-known book brings together guidance on exercise, rest, food, bathing, clothing, fresh air, and healthy living at home.

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Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation.

Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation.

by Walter V. Woods

About the author

Walter V. Woods was a medical doctor and health writer best known for Health: How to Get It and Keep It, published by The Penn Publishing Company in 1905. The book presents health as something shaped by daily routines rather than expensive equipment or complicated systems, and it covers topics such as air, water, food, clothing, bathing, exercise, rest, and dwellings.

From the surviving edition, Woods is identified as "Walter V. Woods, M.D.," but reliable biographical details about his life beyond that are hard to confirm from the sources available here. What is clear is that he wrote in a practical, encouraging style aimed at general readers, urging them to observe their own habits and make gradual, sensible changes.

His work has remained accessible through modern digital archives such as Project Gutenberg and library listings, which suggests a continuing interest in his straightforward approach to personal hygiene and preventive health. For listeners today, his writing offers a window into how everyday wellness was explained to readers in the early 1900s.