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PATHFINDER PHYSIOLOGY No. 3
HYGIENIC PHYSIOLOGY
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE USE OF
ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND NARCOTICS
BEING A REVISED EDITION OF THE
FOURTEEN WEEKS IN HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
BY JOEL DORMAN STEELE, PH.D.
ENLARGED EDITION WITH SELECTED READINGS
Edited for the use of Schools, in accordance with the recentLegislation upon Temperance Instruction
INDORSEMENT.
BOSTON, June 20, 1889.
The Pathfinder Series of Text-books on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygieneconsists of the following volumes:
I. Child's Health Primer (for Primary Grades).
II. Hygiene for Young People or, Young People's Physiology. (for
Intermediate Classes)
III. Hygienic Physiology (for Advanced Pupils).
The above are the series originally prepared (as their general titleindicates) to supply the demand created by the laws for temperanceinstruction in public schools in the United States. They were written byexperts under the supervision of the Scientific Department of the NationalWoman's Christian Temperance Union, published by the instigation of thesame, and have been carefully revised from time to time, under the samesupervision, to keep them abreast with the latest teachings of science.
Being both teachable and well adapted to grade, their educational value,as proven by schoolroom tests, is of the highest order. We thereforecordially indorse and highly recommend the Pathfinder Series for use inschools.
MARY H. HUNT,
National and International Superintendent of the Scientific Dep't ofthe Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Life Director of the NationalEducational Association.
ADVISORY BOARD:
JOSEPH COOK, WILLIAM E. SHELDON, ALBERT H. PLUMB, D.D., DANIEL DORCHESTER,D.D.
PREFACE
The term Physiology, or the science of the functions of the body, has cometo include Anatomy, or the science of its structure, and Hygiene, or thelaws of health; the one being essential to the proper understanding ofphysiology, and the other being its practical application to life. Thethree are intimately blended, and in treating of the different subjectsthe author has drawn no line of distinction where nature has made none.This work is not prepared for the use of medical students, but for theinstruction of youth in the principles which underlie the preservation ofhealth and the formation of correct physical habits. All else is madesubservient to this practical knowledge. A simple scientific dress is usedwhich, while conducing to clearness, also gratifies that general desire ofchildren to know something of the nomenclature of any study they pursue.
To the description of each organ is appended an account of its most commondiseases, accidents, etc., and, when practicable, their mode of treatment.A pupil may thus learn, for example, the cause and cure of "a cold," themanagement of a wound, or the nature of an inflammation.
The Practical Questions, which have been a prominent feature in otherbooks of the series, will be found, it is hoped, equally useful in thiswork. Directions for preparing simple microscopic objects, andillustrations of the different organs, are given under each subject.
The Readings, which represent the ideas but not al