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to master by observation and manipulation what is known as surface 

 anatomy and landmarks. Now while detailed work of this kind is 

 not desirable in secondary schools, yet a limited amount of study 

 along these lines is deeply interesting and profitable. The habit of 

 looking at the living body with anatomical eyes and with eyes at our 

 fingers' ends, during the course in physiology, cannot be too highly 

 estimated. 



In elementary work it is only fair to state that many points of sur- 

 face anatomy and many of the landmarks cannot always be defined 

 or located with precision. A great deal in this direction can, how- 

 ever, be done in higher schools with ingenuity, patience, and a due 

 regard for the feelings of all concerned. For example, the student 

 may be taught to examine the muscles and other parts of his own 

 face, his teeth, tongue, and palate, and the bones and muscles of his 

 shoulders and limbs. Two friends may thus work together, each 

 serving as a "model" to the other. 1 



8. Books for Collateral Reading in Experimental Work in Physiology. 

 A number of books, prepared for the use of teachers and students in 

 schools who wish to supplement the text-book with experimental work, 

 have been recently published. Of these books the teacher is advised 

 to use these excellent handbooks : Prudden's Dust and its Dangers 

 and The Story of Bacteria (G. P. Putnam's Sons) ; Tracy's Hand- 

 book of Sanitary Information (Appleton & Company) ; Woodhull's 

 Homemade Apparatus (E. L. Kellogg & Company); Bowditch's 

 Hints for Teachers of Physiology (D. C. Heath & Company); Pea- 

 body's Laboratory Exercises in Anatomy and Physiologv (H. Holt 

 & Co.) ; Brown's Physiology for the Laboratory (Ginn & Company) ; 

 and French's Manual of Dissection and Histology (J. B. Lippincott 

 Company). 



1 For a syllabus of a very brief course of study on the living model see 

 BlaisdelPs Practical Physiology, pp. 415-419. 



