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that he soon feels the need for the drug. Thus the drug habit is 

 formed, a condition which has wrecked thousands of lives. A 

 number of articles on patent medicines recently appeared in a 



The amounts of alcohol in some liquors and in some patent medicines. 



o, beer, 5 % ; 6, claret, 8 % ; c, champagne, 9 % ; d, whisky, 50 % ; e, well-known sarsaparilla, 

 18 % ; /, g, h, much-advertised nerve tonics, 20 %, 21 %, 25 % ; i, another much-advertised 

 sarsaparilla ; .;', a well-known tonic, 28 % ; k, I, bitters, 37 %, 44 % alcohol. 



leading magazine and have been collected and published under the 

 title of " The Great American Fraud." Every boy and girl should 

 read these so as to be forearmed against such evils. 



REFERENCE READING ON FOODS 



Sharpe, A Laboratory Manual for the Solution of Problems in Biology. American 

 Book Company. 



Davison, The Human Body and Health. American Book Company. 



Bulletin 13, American School of Home Economics, Chicago. 



The Great American Fraud. American Medical Association, Chicago. 



Allen, Civics and Health. Ginn and Company. 



Cornell University Reading Course, Buls. 6 and 7, Human Nutrition. 



Lusk, Science and Nutrition. W. B. Saunders Company. 



The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines. American Medical Associa- 

 tion. 



SOME GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS ON NUTRITION AND FOODS 



(To be obtained from the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington.) 

 No. Farmers' Bulletin : 

 23 Foods : Nutritive Value and Cost. 



