XI 



ON ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN 

 PHYSIOLOGY 



[1877] 



THE chief ground upon which I venture to 

 recommend that the teaching of elementary 

 physiology should form an essential part of any 

 organised course of instruction in matters pertaining 

 to domestic economy, is, that a knowledge of even 

 the elements of this subject supplies those con- 

 ceptions of the constitution and mode of action 

 of the living body, and of the nature of health 

 and disease, which prepare the mind to receive 

 instruction from sanitary science. 



It is, I think, eminently desirable that the 

 hygienist and the physician should find something 

 in the public mind to which they can appeal ; some 

 little stock of universally acknowledged truths, 

 which may serve as a foundation for their warnings, 

 and predispose towards an intelligent obedience to 

 their recommendations. 



