CHILD'S HEALTH PRIMER.
CHILD'S
HEALTH PRIMER
FOR PRIMARY CLASSES
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
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.
As this little book goes to press, Massachusetts, byan act of its legislature, is made the fourteenth statein this country that requires the pupils in the primary,as well as in the higher grades of public schools, tobe taught the effects of alcoholics and other narcoticsupon the human system, in connection with otherfacts of physiology and hygiene.
The object of all this legislation is, not that thefuture citizen may know the technical names ofbones, nerves, and muscles, but that he may have atimely and forewarning knowledge of the effects ofalcohol and other popular poisons upon the humanbody, and therefore upon life and character.
With every reason in favor of such education,and the law requiring it, its practical tests in theschool-room will result in failure, unless there shallbe ready for teacher and scholar, a wel