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of the science. No attempt has been made to 

 sepa .logical topics from anatomical, as 



the two subjects are very closely related : 

 Abdomen Liver 



Absorption Lungs 



Adhesion Lymph 



Alimentary Canal Lymphatics 



Aorta Mastication 



Appetite Membranes 



Arm Mouth 



Arteries Mucus 



Assimilation Muscle 



Biceps Muscle Sense 



Bile Nails 



Bleeding Nerves 



Blood Nervous System 



Blushing Nose 



Bone Nutrition 



Brain Palate 



Breath Pancreas 



Capillaries Pelvis 



Cartilage Peptones 



Chest Pericardium 



Chyle Peritoneum 



Chyme Perspiration 



Circulation Pharynx 



Diaphragm Pleura 



Digestion Pulse 



Ear Reflex Action 



Embryo and Embry- Saliva 

 ology Scalp 



Eye Secretion 



Face Senses, Special 



Fat Serous Membranes 



Fatigue Skeleton 



Fletcherizing Skin 



Foot Sleep 



Gall Bladder Smell 



Ganglion Snoring 



Gastric Juice Spinal Cord 



Gills Spleen 



Glands Starvation 



Hair Stomach 



Hand Taste 



Head Teeth 



Health Tendons 



Health Habits Thirst 



Heart Thoracic Duct 



Histology Tissues 



Immunity Tongue 



Intestines Tonsils 



Joints Touch 



Jugular Vein Trachea 



Kidn Urine 



Lachrymal Glands Veins 



Lacteals Villi 



Larynx Vision 



Life Extension Voice 



Ligament 



A large number of articles on related topics 

 will be found listed in the indexes accompanying 

 the articles DISEASE, MEDICINE AND DRUGS, and 

 SURGERY. 



ANCESTOR, an'sester, WORSHIP. Cer- 

 tain peoples, among whom the most impor- 

 tant are the Chinese, have so great a rever- 

 ence for the dead members of their families 



ANCHOR 



that it really amounts to worship. Many 

 Chinese homes to-day have little carved 

 wooden pillars, called ancestral tablets, in 

 which the spirits of the family ancestors are 

 supposed to dwell; and before these tablets 

 incense is burned by the family as before a 

 shrine. Much of the social system of China 

 depends on this ancestor worship, for since 

 only a "man-child" can fittingly do homage 

 to the spirits of his ancestors, every family 

 hopes for sons and regards daughters as 

 worse than useless. Ancestor worship is also 

 common in India and among certain savage 

 tribes, who worship the animals in which they 

 believe their ancestors have taken refuge after 

 death. Christianizing influences are slow to 

 effect moral changes in such people. 



Such rites appear so strange to people in 

 highly civilized countries that we wonder 

 what causes may be back of them. It is easily 

 understood if we are willing to believe that 

 all human beings realize by instinct there is 

 some influence above the highest powers of 

 man. This belief is indeed very real; the 

 poet Pope expresses it in the words: 



Lo ! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind 

 Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. 



To be sure, the savage does not know that 

 it is God he is seeking; it is just something 

 or some one greater than himself. And who 

 is so likely to be this greater person as the 

 father or grandfather to whom all his life he 

 has had to bow down? Fear enters into his 

 worship to a great extent, too, for he believes 

 that his father and his grandfather can punish 

 him from the spirit world for any neglect, 

 just as severely as they did when their bodies 

 were on earth. 



ANCHOR, ang' her, an implement nearly 

 always of iron, used to prevent a ship from 

 drifting. It usually consists of a bar, or shank, 

 with two arms, or flukes, at the lower end, a 

 cross piece at the top and a ring to which a 

 cable or chain is attached, for lowering it into 

 the water. When the anchor is let go and 

 sinks to the bed of the river or into the sea, 

 one of the flukes is made to sink into the bot- 

 tom and thus take a secure hold. In some 

 anchors the flukes are loosely bolted to the 

 shaft and turn on the bottom so that both 

 take hold of the earth at once. 



Merchant ships do not as a rule carry such 

 heavy anchors as men-of-war, which are pro- 

 vided with two anchors, many tons in weight. 

 A horizontal pull causes the anchor to take 



