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Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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what isnecessary, as well as inju-rious, to such health andthus to the effectivenessof the body as a whole ;and comprehension of thefact that intelligent ideasof hygiene are impossiblewithout knowledge ofanatomy and physiology.The engineer must under-stand the structure of hisengine in order to takeintelligent care of it andrun it properly. To understand how to care forthe health of the body,one must know what itsorgans are and the functions of each. Hygienewithout anatomy and phy-siology consists of mere dogmatic rules. Third, Knowledge of the origin, characterand effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcot-ics. It is axiomatic that such knowledge ofthe facts which the laws require taught as apart of general hygiene is necessary, in orderthat the facts may be properly correlated andoutlined for the various grades to which theyare adapted. THE PEDAGOGIC SENSE In addition to full knowledge of what is thusto be taught, there is also necessary First, The pedagogic sense that comprehends
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The brooks and the rivers have broken the chainThat held them in icy thrall. suits. 112 SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOUENAL Objectors to text-books on this subject in thehands of pupils who have books in other studiesgive no adequate reason for their opposition.Pedagogics as well as morals demands that thepupil, instead of being denied any source ofknowledge, shall have the utmost instruction inall laws of health, together with those whichwarn him against the cigarette, drink, andother destructive habits. Third, The pedagogic sense that applies thefacts revealed by statistics of school attendancein the United States showing that a very largeproportion of pupils attend school only aboutfive years of 200 days each. To postpone thisstudy until the sixth year, or later> is to with-hold from large numbers, and those most need-ing it, even in states having the highest school-attendance, knowledge of the physiologicalreasons for the laws of health and total absti- nence. CONSCIENCE AND PATRIOTISM L

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