The Eclectic Guide to Health: Or, Physiology and HygieneVan Antwerp, Bragg, 1886 - 189 Seiten |
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Seite 3 - Physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics upon the human system, shall be taught in all schools supported in whole or in part by the State. See also L (a), Course of study. Indiana: See E (b). Teachers' certificates, general ; К (с), Uniformity of textbooks; L (a), Course of Study.
Seite 1 - States, elements of physiology and hygiene, with special instruction as to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effects upon the human system...
Seite 148 - ... been too far enfeebled by the influence of the poison. Such a poison is alcohol ; such, in all its forms, mix it with what you may. It is never digested and converted into nourishment.
Seite 87 - There is no such thing as a temperate use of spirits. In any quantity they are an enemy to the human constitution. Their influence upon the physical organs is unfavorable to health. They produce weakness, not strength; sickness, not health ; death, not life.
Seite 145 - The metaphysician may, for the purposes of speculation, separate mind from body, and evoke the laws of its operation out of the depths of selfconsciousness ; but the physician — who has to deal practically with the thoughts, feelings, and conduct of men ; who has to do with mind, not as an abstract entity concerning which he may...
Seite 112 - The cerebro-spinal system consists of the brain, the spinal cord, and the various nerves that connect these two with the skin and muscles.
Seite 70 - Water is required in the system ; and that, on the other hand, it tends to antagonize many of those purposes, by its power of precipitating most of the organic compounds, whose solution in water is essential to their appropriation by the living body.
Seite 4 - MU ; pp. 189. (Cincinnati, USA : Van Antwerp, Bragg, and Co., 1884.) Physiology being taught in many of the schools, the information here given is presented in a plain didactic style, common words being used instead of technical terms, and the details of anatomy are subordinated to the more important consideration of Physiology and Hygiene. Much attention is given to the care of proper sanitary conditions in the home, and to habits of healthfulness in ordinary life, TECHNOLOGICAL DICTIONARY of the...
Seite 70 - DOES ALCOHOL IMPART STRENGTH? 183 opinion, liquor does not fortify against cold. The experience of travelers at the North coincides with that of Dr. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, who says : " While fat is absolutely essential to the inhabitants and travelers in arctic countries, alcohol is, in almost any shape, not only completely useless, but positively injurious.
Seite 118 - ... feet long and one inch and a quarter in diameter, was driven by the premature blasting of a rock completely through the side of the head of a man who was present. It entered below the temple, and made its exit at the top of the forehead, just about the middle line. The man was at first stunned, and lay in a delirious, semistupefied state for about three weeks. At the end of sixteen months, however, he was in perfect health, with the wounds healed and with the mental and bodily functions unimpaired,...