Identifier: schoolphysiology12bost (find matches)
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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able and stimulating wine,either pure or diluted with water. Let us i. In a general way in all countries wherethe alcohol question is under consideration, itis believed that the school can and should fightagainst this evil. 2. The countries are divided upon the modeof procedure. Some put upon the state thecare of introducing the instruction into theschools (America, Canada, France, Belgium),others prefer to have recourse to private initia-tive and ask only the friendly tolerance of thestate (England). In other countries, like Hol-land, the middle classes interested are in favorof official temperance teaching, but they arewaiting for its introduction and content them-selves with a laissez faire policy in order to besure later of securing the radical instruction remember that we are teaching children, and which alone appears to them to be suitable for that the natural drink of the child—I would their country. gladly add of adults—is water. 3. There are radical differences in the na-
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As to results,naturally this isnot the time toestimate them,but ten or fif-teen years hencewhen the chil-dren of todaybecome citi-zens. However,some teachersnotice a changefor the betteramong the par-ents of theirpupils. Thechild says athome : Absin-the is a poison,and the fatherhesitates there-after to take it. Moreover, official initiative has encouragedmany teachers who, in view of the hostility of lo-cal authorities, of the mayor, of tena liquor-seller,did not before dare to engage actively in thestruggle against alcoholism. In Denmark, the government recently sentto all teachers a book of temperance readingscompiled by the Danish society of abstainingteachers, urging them to use it in their lessons. In Holland, the Dutch society of abstainingteachers desires to delay the introduction of tem-perance teaching until, by the progress of publicopinion, they can attack with more decision thanthey now know how to use alcoholic drinks evenof the fermented class. The government allowsthe

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