CONTENTS 



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PREFACES iii-vi 



TABLE OF CONTENTS vii-xix 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xx-xxii 



INTRODUCTION 



Objections considered— Is knowledge dangerous? 

 — "VMien shall information be given?— How to 

 impart knowledge— Eminent testimony 23-36 



GENERAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 



("THE BODY TEMPLE") 



Microscopic wonders— The beginning of life— A 

 live sponge— Men and sponges— 200 bones 



— Cultivated deformities— 500 muscles— How 

 a muscle works— Uses of muscles— A live pump 

 —The two hearts— Arteries and veins— Six 

 quarts of blood— Queer things in the blood- 

 Traveling tinkers— How the blood circulates— 

 How to take care of the heart— Bad blood— 

 2,000 feet of lungs— Drinking air— A plant that 

 eats flies— Thirty feet of stomach— A live mill 



— Five wonderful fluids— Digestion of a mouth- 

 ful of bread— Three and one-half pounds of 

 liver— The business of bile— Liver work- 

 Twenty square feet of skin— The kidneys— 

 Three pounds of brains— 1,200,000,000 nerve 

 cells— Queer thinking— Brain and mind- 

 Spinal cord— Our eyes— Our ears— The nose— 

 How and what we taste 37-67 



SEX IN LIVING FORMS 



Living beings— Microscopic life— Animals and 

 vegetables— Protoplasm— Life force 68-71 



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