Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes

Synopsis

Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes, With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System.

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,[vi] simple, and practical book, bringing these truths down to the capacity of the child.

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