Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System

Think how many hinges must be used by the boy who takes off his hat and makes a polite bow to his teacher, when she meets him on the street.

If you put your finger on a hot stove, in an instant a message goes on the nerve telegraph to the brain. It tells that wise thinking part that your finger will burn, if it stays...

They are made of a kind of bone covered with a hard smooth enamel ([)e]n [)a]m'el). If the enamel is broken, the teeth soon decay and ache, for each tooth is furnished with a ne...

If you should put a little thermometer into your mouth, or under your tongue, the mercury (m[~e]r'ku r[)y]) would rise as high as it does out of doors on a hot, summer day.

The pupil of the eye opens into a little, round room where the nerve of sight is. This is a safe place for this delicate nerve, which can not bear too much light. It carries to...

Where does it come from? It comes through many tiny holes in the skin, called pores (p[=o]rz). Every pore is the mouth of a tiny tube which is carrying off waste matter and wate...

In the same way, the grain growing in the field takes up lime and other things that we need, but could not eat for ourselves. The lime that thus becomes a part of the grain, we...

If your clothes are too tight and the lungs do not have room to expand, they can not take in so much air as they should. Then the blood can not be made pure, and the whole body...

The sugar in the grape-juice is changing into something else. It is turning into alcohol and a gas[A] that moves about in little bubbles in the liquid, and rising to the top, go...

They are fastened to the bones by strong cords, called tendons (t[)e]n'd[)o]nz). These tendons can be seen in the leg of a chicken or turkey. They sometimes hold the meat so fir...

He keeps it warm and moist in a place where he can watch it, and stop the sprouting just in time to save the sugar, before it is used to feed the root and stem. This sprouted gr...

The captain watched his men and saw that they were really made no stronger by drinking the rum; but that, after a little while, they felt weaker. So he determined to go to sea w...

Even to work upon tobacco, makes people pale and sickly. Once I went into a snuff mill, and the man who had the care of it showed me how the work was done.

Sometimes, a child no older than some of you are, is left at home with the care of a baby brother or sister; so it is best that you should know about this dangerous enemy, and n...