New Primer of Sanitation & Physiology: Consisting of Part One, "Public Health" : a Primer of Sanitation ; and Part Two, "Personal Health" : a Primer of Physiology |
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Common terms and phrases
adenoid alcohol animals antitoxin attack bacteria bacterium blood bones brain called carry cause cells cent cerebrum chronic clothing cold consumption corpuscles dangerous death rate diarrhea diet digestive diphtheria diphtheria germ disease germs disinfectant drinking dysentery effect eggs epidemic eyes fibers flies germ carriers germ diseases give glands grow health officers heart heat hookworm human body hygienic important infection infectious diseases influenza injured intestine keep kidneys kill kind larvę living lungs lymph malaria measles meningitis milk mosquito mouth muscles nerve nervous system nose number of deaths oxygen Pasteur patient persons physician plant pneumonia poisoning pollen prevent protect protein quarantine scarlet fever sick skin smallpox smallpox germs soil spinal column spread sputum stomach substances suffer supply teeth tetanus theria throat tissues tobacco tonsils toxin tubercle bacillus tuberculosis typhoid fever United vaccination vessels walls wastes whooping cough wound
Popular passages
Page 359 - Or will you fling it all away, decreeing, wantonlike, that the man you might have been shall never be?
Page 359 - His body, his brain, his soul, are in your boyish hands. He cannot help himself. What will you leave for him? Will it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation; a mind trained to think and act; a nervous system true as a dial in its response to the truth about you? Will you, Boy, let him come as a man among men in his time? Or will you throw away his inheritance before he has had a chance to touch it? Will you turn over to him a brain distorted, a mind diseased, a will untrained to action, a spinal-cord...
Page 8 - In water and in the soil there are millions of little plants and animals — plants and animals so small that they can be seen only with a powerful microscope. The body of one of these little plants or animals is composed of a single cell. The little one-celled plants are called bacteria (singular, bacterium). The little one-celled animals are called protozoa (singular, protozoan}.
Page 359 - Boy, let him come as a man among men in his time? Or will you throw away his inheritance before he has had the chance to touch it? Will you turn over to him a brain distorted, a mind diseased? A will untrained to action? A spinal cord grown through and through with the devil grass of that vile harvest we call wild oats?
Page 320 - ... amount of food burned by the cells is greater. When work is done by the muscles, the amount of food used is increased, — enormously increased if hard work is done.1 Exposure to cold causes the muscles to have a greater tension, and thus increases the amount of food burned in the body and the amount 1 The energy content of food is measured by the heat it yields when burned. The unit of measurement is the calorie, which is the amount of heat required to raise a liter of water one degree Centigrade....
Page 68 - We strongly emphasize the necessity and importance of combining the fight against tuberculosis with the struggle against alcoholism.
Page 359 - ... men in his time ? Or will you throw away his inheritance before he has had the chance to touch it ? Will you turn over to him a brain distorted, a mind diseased? A will untrained to action? A spinal cord grown through and through with the devil grass of that vile harvest we call wild oats...
Page 274 - All schoolrooms where pupils are seated for study, shall be lighted from one side only and the glass area shall be not less than one-sixth of the floor area and the windows shall extend from not less than four...
Page 356 - I took pains to inquire into the habits of my men. On being answered in the negative, he surprised me by saying that the men I found unable to do the delicate work of budding invariably turned out to be smokers and drinkers. These men, while able to do the rough work of farming, call budding and other delicate work ' puttering ' and have to give it up, owing to inability to concentrate their nerve force.
Page 323 - Age 5 to 8 6 oz. 8 to 11 8 oz. 11 to 14 12 oz. 14 to 16 8 oz. 16 to 18 4 oz. * Weights and measures should be taken without shoes and in only the usual indoor clothes. £ <£ E z ?! E E .0% „! as gi E aol .»'§ && »3 >* !