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Angela Rowling
Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes (Annotated)
Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes (Annotated)
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
FRONTISPIECE 2
TITLE-PAGE 3
PREFACE 5
CONTENTS 7
I.--JOINTS AND BONES 9
II.--MUSCLES 19
III.--NERVES 25
IV.--WHAT IS ALCOHOL? 37
V.--BEER 43
VI.--DISTILLING 47
VII.--ALCOHOL 50
VIII.--TOBACCO 53
IX.--OPIUM 59
X.--WHAT ARE ORGANS? 61
XI.--WHAT DOES THE BODY NEED FOR FOOD? 71
XII.--HOW FOOD BECOMES PART OF THE BODY 79
XIII.--STRENGTH 85
XIV.--THE HEART 93
XV.--THE LUNGS 97
XVI.--THE SKIN 103
XVII.--THE SENSES 109
XVIII.--HEAT AND COLD 115
XIX.--WASTED MONEY 122
CHAPTER I.
JOINTS AND BONES.
[Illustration: L]ITTLE girls like a jointed doll to play with, because they can bend such a doll in eight or ten places, make it stand or sit, or can even play that it is walking.
[Illustration: Jointed dolls.]
As you study your own bodies to-day, you will find that you each have better joints than any dolls that can be bought at a toy shop.
HINGE-JOINTS.
Some of your joints work like the hinges of a door, and these are called hinge-joints.
You can find them in your elbows, knees, fingers, and toes.
How many hinge-joints can you find?
Think how many hinges must be used by the boy who takes off his hat and makes a polite bow to his teacher, when she meets him on the street.
How many hinges do you use in running up-stairs, opening the door, buttoning your coat or your boots, playing ball or digging in your garden?
You see that we use these hinges nearly all the time. We could not do without them.
BALL AND SOCKET JOINTS.
All our joints are not hinge-joints.
Your shoulder has a joint that lets your arm swing round and round, as well as move up and down.
Your hip has another that lets your leg move in much the same way.
[Illustration: The hip-joint.]
This kind of joint is the round end or ball of a long bone, which moves in a hole, called a socket.
Your joints do not creak or get out of order, as those of doors and gates sometimes do. A soft, smooth fluid, much like the white of an egg, keeps them moist and makes them work easily.
BONES.
What parts of our bodies are jointed together so nicely? Our bones.
How many bones have we?
If you should count all your bones, you would find that each of you has about two hundred.
Some are large; and some, very small.
There are long-hones in your legs and arms, and many short ones in your fingers and toes. The backbone is called the spine.
[Illustration: Backbone of a fish.]
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CHAPTER PAGE
FRONTISPIECE 2
TITLE-PAGE 3
PREFACE 5
CONTENTS 7
I.--JOINTS AND BONES 9
II.--MUSCLES 19
III.--NERVES 25
IV.--WHAT IS ALCOHOL? 37
V.--BEER 43
VI.--DISTILLING 47
VII.--ALCOHOL 50
VIII.--TOBACCO 53
IX.--OPIUM 59
X.--WHAT ARE ORGANS? 61
XI.--WHAT DOES THE BODY NEED FOR FOOD? 71
XII.--HOW FOOD BECOMES PART OF THE BODY 79
XIII.--STRENGTH 85
XIV.--THE HEART 93
XV.--THE LUNGS 97
XVI.--THE SKIN 103
XVII.--THE SENSES 109
XVIII.--HEAT AND COLD 115
XIX.--WASTED MONEY 122
CHAPTER I.
JOINTS AND BONES.
[Illustration: L]ITTLE girls like a jointed doll to play with, because they can bend such a doll in eight or ten places, make it stand or sit, or can even play that it is walking.
[Illustration: Jointed dolls.]
As you study your own bodies to-day, you will find that you each have better joints than any dolls that can be bought at a toy shop.
HINGE-JOINTS.
Some of your joints work like the hinges of a door, and these are called hinge-joints.
You can find them in your elbows, knees, fingers, and toes.
How many hinge-joints can you find?
Think how many hinges must be used by the boy who takes off his hat and makes a polite bow to his teacher, when she meets him on the street.
How many hinges do you use in running up-stairs, opening the door, buttoning your coat or your boots, playing ball or digging in your garden?
You see that we use these hinges nearly all the time. We could not do without them.
BALL AND SOCKET JOINTS.
All our joints are not hinge-joints.
Your shoulder has a joint that lets your arm swing round and round, as well as move up and down.
Your hip has another that lets your leg move in much the same way.
[Illustration: The hip-joint.]
This kind of joint is the round end or ball of a long bone, which moves in a hole, called a socket.
Your joints do not creak or get out of order, as those of doors and gates sometimes do. A soft, smooth fluid, much like the white of an egg, keeps them moist and makes them work easily.
BONES.
What parts of our bodies are jointed together so nicely? Our bones.
How many bones have we?
If you should count all your bones, you would find that each of you has about two hundred.
Some are large; and some, very small.
There are long-hones in your legs and arms, and many short ones in your fingers and toes. The backbone is called the spine.
[Illustration: Backbone of a fish.]
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