. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. FECT OF POSTURE ON HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY Fashion has for so long dic-tated the shape of the body thatmany persons seem to have for-gotten the reasons for its originalform. They consider it onlyfrom the standpoint of beautyand as a means of showing offbeautiful clothes, and, strange tosay, as Dame Fashion dictateschanges, our idea of beauty ofform changes also; what todaywe consider a deformity, nextmonth we may be working hardto cultivate. Many personsseem not to appreciate the realbeauty of the
. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. FECT OF POSTURE ON HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY Fashion has for so long dic-tated the shape of the body thatmany persons seem to have for-gotten the reasons for its originalform. They consider it onlyfrom the standpoint of beautyand as a means of showing offbeautiful clothes, and, strange tosay, as Dame Fashion dictateschanges, our idea of beauty ofform changes also; what todaywe consider a deformity, nextmonth we may be working hardto cultivate. Many personsseem not to appreciate the realbeauty of the well-formed bodypoised as it should be, or whatthe effect upon the health iswhen this poise is lost and thebody has become lack of appreciation nodoubt comes largely from igno-rance of the real purpose of thebody, of the wonder and beautyof its formation, and a failure torealize how by carelessness andlack of thought this wonderfulmachine may be injured andprevented from doing its perfectwork. That my readers mayhave a better knowledge of theirbodies, I have introduced here a 73. Fig. 30. Poor posture. Knees are re-laxed, shoulders stooped, head droopedforward; chest is flat, abdominal musclesrelaxed. The weight falls back of theheels, throwing center of gravity back ofbody support. 74 Personal Hygiene and Home Nursing brief description of the human body and a discussion of thestructure and proper relations of some of its organs and parts. The human body. To the student of anatomy and physiology,the body is the most wonderful machine in the world. The morehe studies it the more he realizes that every part of it, no matterhow small, how seemingly unimportant, has its own special func-tion or work, and that all the parts together make up a wonderfulwhole, built for the greatest efficiency. Each organ is a completeunit in structure, and each has a function that it definitely per-forms. Yet all the organs are built into one whole, infinitely morecomplex in both stru
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