Anatomy and physiology : designed for academies and families . JERS AND PARENTS. the technical words, is of great importance, both in recitationand in conversation. If the illustrating engravings were drawn upon a black-board, it would serve to impress more strongly the form andrelative positions of the several organs upon the memory. The questions at the bottom of each page, are designed foryoung scholars. The leading questions are given in italics, inorder that advanced students, if preferred, may recite thetext in the form of topics. To parents and others we would say, that about two thirds
Anatomy and physiology : designed for academies and families . JERS AND PARENTS. the technical words, is of great importance, both in recitationand in conversation. If the illustrating engravings were drawn upon a black-board, it would serve to impress more strongly the form andrelative positions of the several organs upon the memory. The questions at the bottom of each page, are designed foryoung scholars. The leading questions are given in italics, inorder that advanced students, if preferred, may recite thetext in the form of topics. To parents and others we would say, that about two thirdsof the present work is devoted to a concise and intelligibledescription of the uses of the important organs of the humanbody, and to show how such information may be usefully ap-plied, both to the preservation of health, and the improvementof physical education. To this has been added directions forthe treatment of those accidents which daily occur in the com-munity, making it a treatise proper and profitable for thefamily library as well as the CONTENTS. A. Abdomen, 129 Absorbents, anatomy of the, 292 physiology of the,- • -293 of the skin, 31 conditions of activi-ty, 32-35 Adipose tissue, 61 Air, 164 quantity inhaled, 169 purity of, 174 influence upon skin, 56 Air-cells, 160 Albino, 276 Aorta, 199 Arteries, anatomy of, 197 physiology of, 219 of the skin, 24 physiology of cutaneous, 25 Attitudes, 117, 118, 1S7, 18S Auricle of the heart, 194 Asphyxia, from drowning, 307 from hanging, 308 from vapor of charcoal, 309 B. Bathing, 51 necessity of, 52 method of, 53 proper time for, 55 Beds, 51 Bile, 138 Blood, 222 circulation of, 216-220 practical suggestions on the, 223-225 influence of, on the diges-tive organs, 154 Blood, effect of, upon the system, when impure, 177 change of, 164 Bones, anatomy of, 63 physiology of, 82 of the head, 63 of the trunk, G8 of the upper extremities, • 73of the lower extremities,* • 76 composition of, 79 ossification of, 81 practica
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