Produced by Stephen Hope, Joseph Cooper, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CHILD'S HEALTH PRIMER. [Illustration: WASTING MONEY. (See p. 123.)] PATHFINDER PHYSIOLOGY No. 1 CHILD'S HEALTH PRIMER FOR PRIMARY CLASSES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKS, STIMULANTS, AND NARCOTICS UPON THE HUMAN SYSTEM INDORSED BY THE SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION OF THE UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT, 1885 A. S. BARNES & COMPANY NEW YORK AND CHICAGO PATHFINDER SERIES OF TEXT BOOKS ON ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND HYGIENE. With Special Reference to the Influence of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics on the Human System. INDORSED BY THE SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION OF THE UNITED STATES. I. FOR PRIMARY GRADES. THE CHILD'S HEALTH PRIMER. 12mo. Cloth. An introduction to the study of the science, suited to pupils of the ordinary third reader grade. Full of lively description and embellished by many apt illustrations. II. FOR INTERMEDIATE CLASSES. HYGIENE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 12mo. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated. Suited to pupils able to read any fourth reader. An admirable elementary treatise upon the subject. The principles of the science more fully announced and illustrated. III. FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES. HYGIENIC PHYSIOLOGY. 12mo. Beautifully illustrated. A MORE ELABORATE TREATISE. Prepared for the instruction of youth in the principles which underlie the preservation of health and the formation of correct physical habits. PREFACE As this little book goes to press, Massachusetts, by an act of its legislature, is made the fourteenth state in this country that requires the pupils in the primary, as well as in the higher grades of public schools, to be taught the effects of alcoholics and other narcotics upon the human system, in connection with other facts of physiology and hygiene. The object of all this legislation is, not that the future citizen may know the technical names of bones, nerves, and muscles, but that he may have a _=timely=_ and _=forewarning=_ knowledge of the effects of alcohol and other popular poisons upon the human body, and therefore upon life and character. With every reason in favor of such education, and the law requiring it, its practical tests in the school-room will result in failure, unless there shall be ready for teacher and scholar, a well-arranged, simple, and practical book, bringing these truths down to the capacity of the child.