Identifier: schoolphysiology08bost (find matches)
Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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perpart or the lower? When we want strengthmerely, as in the upper parts of the leg and arm,do we find large or small bones ? When skilland great variety of motions are needed, as inthe lower arm and leg, and still more in thefoot and hand, what kind of bones is to befound ? Bones protect the brain and chest and otherdelicate parts. Bones hold our bodies together and help tomake them strong. Without our bones we could not move aboutor do what we wish. Large bones are for strength; many smallbones working together are for skill. Have the class notice the human spine asshown on the chart. Then show the backboneof a small fish and let them examine thisclosely. When they notice that it is composedof a number of small bones strung on an elasticcord, get their own opinions as far as you canas to the reason for this. Bring into class a small stick about the samelength and size as the backbone and ask someboy or girl to try to bend it. Then have allrise and bend their bodies forward and back-
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White-clad children by degrees steal out in troops among- the trees,—Fair little children morning bright, with faces grave yet soft to sight. A lesson on the manifold uses of the handand the marvelous skill of which it is capablemay well be introduced at this point, and thethought suggested that the training of handand brain must always go together. Ask each child to name an animal that canrun very fast, or is specially quick in his move-ments ; then one that is strong and powerful.Let them next tell all they can about the differ-ences between the bones of these animals.Which have long slender bones ? Which havebones that are thick and stout? Send one after another in the class to thechart to point out as many bones of differentshapes as they can find? Explain the reasonsfor the different shapes and sizes until these arethoroughly understood. In review, call for allthe uses of the bones which have been broughtout thus far, and have these written on theboard. We need bones to give sh

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