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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as many of these sentences aspossible, to illustrate the fact that without oureyes we could get no idea of the color inflowers, birds, insects, the sky or any object innature. Talk with the class in a similar way abouteach of the senses, helping them to name allthe pleasures they can which we receive througheach when it is well trained and able todo its best work. Thenby way of double em-phasis, let the childrentell what they wouldhave to get along with-out if they could nothear, or taste, or smell,or feel any object. When these facts havebeen brought out as fullyas may be, ask the classto think again of thestory of Ethel and herfather, and be ready totell what tobacco maydo to these delicateparts of our bodies.Write such points on theboard as given by thechildren, making surethat they include thesesimple facts : Tobacco hurts theeyesight and may de-stroy it. Tobacco sometimeshurts the hearing. Tobacco may injurethe senses of taste andsmell. Tobacco makes allour senses dull andstupid.
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Whered you come from? Tobacco Injures the Person. When your class have a good idea of theway in which tobacco dulls the different senses,they need to connect with this the injury to theperson as a whole, and to all his interestswhether of work or play. These points maybe presented at first by some story easily under-stood. Uncle Masons Toad. Johnnie Eaton was helping the gardener,picking up stones and bits of sticks and carry-ing them off in his little cart, when an old toadhopped out of the bushes and sat blinkingsolemnly at him. Hullo, old fellow, whered you come from ? said Johnnie, stopping all operations to look atthe intruder. Heres a toad, Uncle Mason, he called tothe gardener. Shall I put him out? The old man hobbled up. No, no, myboy, let him be. He catches bugs and flies andhelps to keep away the insects that would spoilour plants. See him run out his tongue andsnap up that fly? He never fails to get himand the first time trying too. Suppose we sit down on this bankawhile an

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