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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



1. The Bones (chap, ii, p. 



13). 



2. The Muscles (chap, iii, 



P- 42). 



3. Physical Exercise (chap, 

 iv, p. 56). 



4. Food and Drink (chap. 



v, p. 70). 



5. Origin and Nature of 

 Fermented Drinks 

 (chap, vi, p. 81). 



6. Digestion (chap, vii, p. 



92). 



7. The Blood and its Cir- 

 culation (chap, viii, p. 

 122). 



8. Breathing (chap, ix, p. 



142). 



9. How the Body is Cov- 

 ered (chap, x, p. 161). 



10. The Nervous System 

 (chap, xi, p. 177). 



11. The Special Senses 



(chap, xii, p. 210). 



12. Excretion (chap, xiii, p. 

 235). 



13. Throat and Voice (chap. 



xiv, p. 243). 



14. Simple Matters of Every- 

 day Health (chap, xv, p. 

 249). 



Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the bones (35). 



1. Effect of alcohol on the muscles (44). 



2. Effect of alcohol on strength (45). 



3. Effect of tobacco on the muscles (46). 



Effect of alcohol and tobacco on physical exercise (58). 



Effect of drinking tea and coffee (72). 



1. Change produced by fermentation (74). 



2. Ferments and what they do (75). 



3. Alcohol a poison (76). 



4. Narcotic poisons (76). 



5. The alcoholic appetite (77). 



6. The evils of overdrinking (78). 



7. Wine, and why it should be avoided (79). 



8. Beer : Its origin. Relation to drunkenness (80). 



9. Distilled liquors (81). 



10. The cost of the alcoholic vice (note, p. 89). 



1. Effect of alcohol on the stomach digestion (99). 



2. Effect of alcohol on the liver (100). 



3. Effect of tobacco on digestion (101). 



1. How alcohol gets into the blood (11 7). 



2. Effect of alcohol on the circulation (116). 



3. Effect of alcohol on the heart (119). 



4. Effect of tobacco on the heart (120). 



1. Effect of alcohol and tobacco upon the lungs (132). 



2. Alcohol and the bodily heat (133). 



3. Alcohol in hardship (note, p. 160). 



Effect of alcohol and tobacco upon the skin (145). 



1. Narcotics (162). 



2. General effect of alcohol on the nervous system (163). 



3. Effect of alcohol on the brain tissue (164). 



4. Final result of alcoholic poisoning (165). 



5. Inherited craving for alcohol (166). 



6. Tobacco and its use (167). 



7. Evil effect of tobacco (note, p. 203). 



8. Effect of tobacco upon young people (168). 



9. Tobacco from a moral point of view (169). 



10. Opium (170). 



11. Practical hints about opium (171). 



12. Chloral and other poisons (172). 



Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the special senses (196). 



Effect of alcohol on the kidneys (202). 



Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the throat and voice 



(207). 

 Pernicious use of alcoholic liquors in accidents and 



emergencies (225). 



This, then, is " scientific temperance " a work on human physi- 

 ology transformed into a pamphlet or argument on the evils of 

 stimulants and narcotics, with such incidental science as will 

 strengthen this argument or secure for it a place in the schools. 

 It is not enough that the case against these agencies be put briefly 

 and strongly, it must be reiterated until it becomes the central 

 object for physiological study. This makes a necessity for space- 

 writing such as that above quoted. In the two pages of the 

 Indiana Series I find twenty-one distinct ideas as to the evils of 

 alcohol and tobacco. These it is the work of the teacher to illus- 



