HOOLS AND ACADEMIES.
HYGIENIC PHYSIOLOGY.
12mo. Beautifully illustrated.
A MORE ELABORATE TREATISE.

Prepared for the instruction of youth in the principles which
underlie the preservation of health and the
formation of correct physical habits.

PREFACE

As this little book goes to press, Massachusetts, by an act of its
legislature, is made the fourteenth state in this country that requires
the pupils in the primary, as well as in the higher grades of public
schools, to be taught the effects of alcoholics and other narcotics upon
the human system, in connection with other facts of physiology and
hygiene.

The object of all this legislation is, not that the future citizen may
know the technical names of bones, nerves, and muscles, but that he may
have a _=timely=_ and _=forewarning=_ knowledge of the effects of
alcohol and other popular poisons upon the human body, and therefore
upon life and character.

With every reason in favor of such education, and the law requiring it,
its practical tests in the school-room will result in failure, unless
there shall be ready for teacher and scholar, a well-arranged, simple,
and practical book, bringing these truths down to the capacity of the
child.

A few years hence, when the results of this study in our Normal Schools
shall be realized in the preparation of the teacher, we can depend upon
her adapting oral lessons from advanced works on this theme, but now,
the average primary teacher brings to this study no experience, and
limited previous study.

To meet this need, this work has been prepared. Technical terms have
been avoided, and only such facts of physiology developed as are
necessary to the treatment of the effects of alcohol, tobacco, opium,
and other truths of hygiene.

To the children in the Primary Schools of this country, for whom it was
prepared, this work is dedicated.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

FRONTISPIECE 2

TITLE-PAGE 3

PREFACE 5

CONTENTS 7

I.--JOINTS AND BONES 9

II.--MUSCLES 19

III.--NERVES 25

IV.--WHAT IS ALCOHOL?