Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: millennial dreams and physical realities, 1830-1860
Chapter one: health, medicine, and society
Chapter two: spices and the social order
Chapter three: the springs (and shocks) of life
Chapter four: "bad air" and the "movement cure"
Part II: the price of civilization, 1860-1890
Chapter five: the sanitation movement and the wilderness cure
Chapter six: the new "American nervousness"
Chapter seven: electricity, energy, and vitality
Chapter eight: "muscular Christianity" and the athletic revival
Part III: regeneration, 1890-1940
Chapter nine: living the strenuous life
Chapter ten: old-time quiet in a breathless age
Chapter eleven: dietetic righteousness
Epilogue
Notes
Picture credits
Index.