5i6 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



" English as Slie is Taught/' appear the following genuine answers 

 by pupils in reply to questions upon physiology and hygiene. 

 Presumably most of these answers are from American pupils in 

 American schools : 



" Physillogigy is to study about your bones, stummick and ver- 

 tebry." " When you have an illness it makes your health bad as 

 well as having a disease." " The body is mostly composed of 

 water and about one half is avaricious tissue." " The body has an 

 infinite number of bones joined together by the joints." "The 

 spinal column is made of bones running all over the body." " Di- 

 gestion belongs to the lower animals." " Digestion is the circula- 

 tion of blood." " Digestion is reducing our food to plump." 

 " Digestion is when food is taken into the stomach." " The gastric 

 juice keeps the bones from creaking." " The eyes are set in two 

 sockets in a bone which turns up at the end and then becomes the 

 nose." " The three coverings of the brain are the diameter, the 

 perimeter and the trachea." " The growth of a tooth begins in 

 the back of the mouth and extends to the stomach." 



As an additional contribution to answers, we add the follow- 

 ing, taken by the writer from the note-books of pupils of one of 

 the high-schools of this country : 



" Anatomy is dissecting of bodies generally lifeless." " Anat- 

 omy is study of parts of the body, physiology study of action of 

 parts, hygiene is ap'plication of these parts" (italics are ours). 

 "Kinds of bathing, adapted to the age, quantity, quality and 

 health of the person." "Supernator are the muscles about the 

 back." " The hygiene of a muscle should have proper rest and 

 exercise." " Hygiene is the study of the time and manner of the- 

 action of the muscles and large blood-vessels." " The mouth is 

 the commencement of the alimentary canal, and it extends through 

 the throat, oesophagus into the stomach." "The extent of the 

 mouth helps the digestion of food." " Nervous system a decided 

 part of the body." " A young person who goes to parties and has 

 great excitement has generally some brain trouble, such as St. 

 Vitus dance." " It is far more reliable to drive out the fire of 

 a room and put on extra clothing than it is to put on no clothing 

 and sit in front of a burning fire." " Soap is important in carry- 

 ing off the fat of the body." " What is eaten by the body has 

 sometimes been taken as food." " The third cavity is the pelvis, 

 which contains the vital organs." "In a diet of twenty-four 

 hours a man should eat some of all the nutritious articles." " The 

 first step in digestion is mastication and insalivation. Second, the 

 muscles of the gullet." " A person is in fair health when he has 

 the affinity to accommodate himself to change of climate and the 

 ability to endure." " Respiration is the exchange of carbolic acid 

 for oxygen." The substitution of carbolic for carbonic acid is fre- 



