Lessons in hygiene, or, The human body and how to take care of it : the elements of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene for intermediate grades : being an edition of How we live, revised to comply with the legislation requiring temperance instruction in schools

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CHAPTER I. The Bodt and its Pabts 11

Why we should Study our Bodies : Some Things easily seen — Others require Study — Natural to avoid injuring Outward Parts of the Body — Study needed to know how to take care of Organs within the Body — Why we should look well and keep healthy. About Parts of the Body : The Arms — The Legs— The Limbs and Joints — Parts of the Body in Pairs — The Bodies of other Animals — Uses of the Parts of the Body. Something to Find Out. Topical Analysis.

CHAPTER II. EIating, and what Comes of It 18

Why we Eat: The Body always wearing out — We eat that we may live. What we Eat : Kinds of Pood — Value of Different Kinds — Special Poods — Mixed Foods. How wb Eat : Chewing— The Teeth— Care of the Teeth— How to keep the Teeth clean. How we Swallow : How Saliva ilows — Amount of Saliva — How Saliva is wasted — Tobacco — Water and the Body — Alcohol and Water — The Esophagus. Hygiene op Bating. Something to Find Out. Topical Analysis.

CHAPTER III. Alcohol and its Effects ....... 3S

The Nature of Alcohol: Decay a Law of Nature — What causes Decay — Ferments and what they do — Alcohol not like Water — What is a Poison ? — Alcohol a Poison — Alcohol a Narcotic Poison. The Effects op Alcohol: The Moderate Drinker — The Alcoholic Appetite. Hygiene. Something to Find Out. Topical Analysis.

8 LESSONS IN E7Q1ENE.

CHAPTER IV. Alcoholic Drinks and Tobacco 43

Clear Alcohol seldom used. Drinks containing Alcohol : Cider — Effects of Cider- Drinking — Wine made from Grapes — Home-made Wines — Wine and Drunlienness — Proof that Cider and Wine contain Alcohol — Beer — Home-made Beer. Effects of Fermentation : Why Fermentation makes Good Bre^d and Poisonous Beer — Fermentation changes the Nature of Substances — Vinous and Acetous Fermentation — A Serious Mistake. Distilled Liquors: Distillation — Effects of Distilled Liquors. Tobacco: Nicotine — Cigarettes. Hygiene. Something to Find Out. Topical Analysis.

CHAPTER V. How Digestion gobs on 65

How Food nourishes the Body. Stomach Digestion: Structure of the Stomach — Muscular Action — Gastric Juice — Pood Changes — Absorbing Blood-vessels — Chyme — Drink. Intestinal Digestion : Structure of the Intestines — Intestinal Juices— The Pancreas — The Duodenum— Office of the Pancreatic Juice— The Liver— Office of the Bile— Chyle— The Lacteals— Absorption— The Portal System — Alcohol in the Stomach — Another Way in which Alcohol hinders Digestion — Tobacco and the Stomach — Alcohol and the Liver. Other Narcotics — Opium — Morphine — Chloral. Hygiene OF Digestion. Something to Find Out. Topical Analysis.