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Walter V. Woods

Best known for an early 20th-century guide to everyday wellness, this little-known physician wrote in a practical, encouraging voice about habits that support better health. His work focuses on simple essentials like fresh air, food, rest, exercise, bathing, and healthy living spaces.

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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 is a hard-to-trace author, but the available records clearly connect him with Health: How to Get It and Keep It, a public-domain health guide credited to Walter V. Woods, M.D. The book was published by The Penn Publishing Company in 1905 and covers the hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation.

The tone of his writing is direct and practical rather than technical. He presents health as something shaped by daily routines and ordinary surroundings, encouraging readers to pay attention to habits, cleanliness, fresh air, balanced nourishment, and sensible exercise.

Little reliable biographical information about his life appears to be readily available online, so most modern interest in Woods centers on this surviving book. Even so, the work offers a useful glimpse into popular health thinking in the early 1900s and remains accessible today through public-domain archives.