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what sense is alcoholism a disease ? Why do so few recover 

 from it? 



6. Apart from the use of alcoholic drinks what in general 

 constitutes a temperate manner of life ? What does temper- 

 ate living involve as to (a) kind and quantity of food taken ; 

 (6) sleep; (c) amusements and recreations? 



7. In the building up of the body tissues what is the 

 food value of tea and coffee ? In what respects may their 

 use become a serious menace to health? 



8. What is meant by narcotics ? Name several. Under 

 what circumstances are narcotics a blessing to mankind? 

 When do they become a curse? Why are liquids contain- 

 ing alcohol included among the narcotics? 



9. WTiat is meant by the drug habit? Why is it so 

 seldom overcome? How is it that anyone becomes a 

 victim of the drug habit ? Why is instruction in the terrible 

 results of the habitual use of drugs necessary in schools? 

 Under whose direction only should drugs ever be taken? 

 Why so ? Why are there such stringent regulations for the 

 sale of opium and its compounds, and of other narcotics ? 



10. The claim that one's nerves are soothed by use of 

 tobacco is confession of what fact? Give any sufficient 

 reasons for learning to smoke after one is thirty years old. 

 From your knowledge of the growth of the body by cell- 

 division, and of the nature of the protoplasm of the cells, 

 account for the stunting of body and mind in boys from ex- 

 cessive use of tobacco. 



11. Why are "soothing sirups" given to infants? 

 Judging from their effects what must they contain? What 



