CHAPTER I. JOINTS AND BONES. L ITTLE girls like a jointed doll
CHAPTER II. MUSCLES. W HAT makes the limbs move?
CHAPTER III. NERVES. H OW do the muscles know when to move?
CHAPTER IV. WHAT IS ALCOHOL? R IPE grapes are full of juice.
CHAPTER V. BEER. A LCOHOL is often made from grains as well as
CHAPTER VI. DISTILLING. D ISTILLING (d?s t?l?'ing) may be a new
CHAPTER VII. ALCOHOL. A LCOHOL looks like water, but it is not at all like water.
CHAPTER VIII. TOBACCO. A FARMER who had been in the habit of
CHAPTER IX. OPIUM. A LCOHOL and tobacco are called narcotics
CHAPTER X. WHAT ARE ORGANS? A N organ is a part of the body
CHAPTER XI. WHAT DOES THE BODY NEED FOR FOOD? N OW that you
CHAPTER XII. HOW FOOD BECOMES PART OF THE BODY. H ERE, at last,
CHAPTER XIII. STRENGTH. H ERE are the names of some of the
CHAPTER XIV. THE HEART. T HE heart is in the chest, the upper
CHAPTER XV. THE LUNGS. T HE blood flows all through the body,
CHAPTER XVI. THE SKIN. T HERE is another part of your body
CHAPTER XVII. THE SENSES. W E have five ways of learning about
CHAPTER XVIII. HEAT AND COLD. WHAT MAKES US WARM? M Y thick, warm clothes make me warm," says some child.
CHAPTER XIX. WASTED MONEY. COST OF ALCOHOL. N OW that you have
CHILD'S HEALTH PRIMER.
PATHFINDER PHYSIOLOGY No. 1
CHILD'S
HEALTH PRIMER
FOR PRIMARY CLASSES
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKS,
STIMULANTS, AND NARCOTICS UPON THE HUMAN SYSTEM
INDORSED BY THE
SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF THE
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
OF THE
UNITED STATES
Copyright, 1885
A. S. BARNES & COMPANY
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
PATHFINDER SERIES
OF TEXT BOOKS ON
ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND HYGIENE.
With Special Reference to the Influence of Alcoholic
Drinks and Narcotics on the Human System.
Indorsed by the Scientific Department of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union of the United States.
I.
FOR PRIMARY GRADES.
THE CHILD'S HEALTH PRIMER.
12mo. Cloth.
An introduction to the study of the science, suited to
pupils of the ordinary third reader grade.
Full of lively description and embellished by many apt
illustrations.
II.
FOR INTERMEDIATE CLASSES.
HYGIENE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
12mo. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated.
Suited to pupils able to read any fourth reader.
An admirable elementary treatise upon the subject.
The principles of the science more fully announced
and illustrated.
III.
FOR HIGH SCHOOLS 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.
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? | 37 |
| V. | —Beer | 43 |
| VI. | —Distilling | 47 |
| VII. | —Alcohol | 50 |
| VIII. | —Tobacco | 53 |
| IX. | —Opium | 59 |
| X. | —What are Organs? | 61 |
| XI. | —What does the Body Need for Food? | 71 |
| XII. | —How Food Becomes Part of the Body | 79 |
| XIII. | —Strength | 85 |
| XIV. | —The Heart | 93 |
| XV. | —The Lungs | 97 |
| XVI. | —The Skin | 103 |
| XVII. | —The Senses | 109 |
| XVIII. | —Heat and Cold | 115 |
| XIX. | —Wasted Money | 122 |
