Questions: 1. What effect had ventilating the room in which they worked, on the girls of the Massachusetts telephone exchange? 2. What two lessons in hygiene can we learn from this? 3. Mention some hygienic faults sometimes found in houses. 4. Study the house in which you live and decide how it could be made a more healthful dwelling. 5. Why should we have public health officers? Suggestions and topics for development: Lay great stress upon the importance of a hygienic environment. Often the badly heated, poorly ventilated schoolroom will offer a good starting point for practical suggestions. A schoolhouse that has a cold floor should have special attention. The teacher will find that Ritchie's Primer of Sanitation and Primer of Physiology (the second and third books of this series) contain additional subject matter of much value and Shaw's School Hygiene (The Macmillan Company, New York), or a similar text, will be of the greatest aid in applying hygienic principles in the school. THE teacher who uses this text will find Allen's Civics and Health (Ginn & Company, Boston), Shaw's School Hygiene (The Macmillan Company, New York), Hill's The New Public Health (The Macmillan Company), Lloyd and Bigelow's The Teaching of Biology (Longmans, Green & Company, New York), and Fisher and Fisk's How to Live (Funk & Wagnalls, New York) most useful in giving a background for the teaching of the subject. McKenzie's Exercise in Education and Medicine (W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia), Harrington's Practical Hygiene (Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia), Rosenau's Preventive Medicine and Hygiene (Appletons, New York), and Jordan's Principles of Bacteriology (W. B. Saunders Company) are books of a more advanced nature, but they can be profitably consulted by even the non-technical reader. Ritchie's Primer of Sanitation, Primer of Physiology, and Human Physiology, the more advanced books of the series which includes the present text, will furnish more detailed information in regard to many of the topics discussed. These or other similar books should be at the command of the teacher, for there can be little doubt of the truth of Spencer's dictum that hygiene is the most important subject in the schools and that it should yield to no subject in the care with which it is taught or in the time devoted to it. ACCIDENTS, what to do in case of, | Breeding places of flies, 170-171; 127-130 Adenoids, 60-62; effects of, 61; Air, necessity for, 46 Air passages, 53; effects of dust on, 54; of tobacco smoke on, 56 Antidotes, for poisons, 129, 130 of mosquitoes, 171 CANDY, harm done by, 35 Care of foods, 22-25 Clothing, 77-79; changing with Arsenic, antidote for poisoning by, Cold drinks, harm done by, 33 130 BACTERIA, cause of spoiling of food, Baths, cold, 76 Colds, causes of, 160; restriction of, Consumption, in dusty trades, 54. Corrosive sublimate, antidote for, 129 Croup, membranous, 158 Bichlorid of mercury, antidote for, Cuts, how to bandage, 66 130 Bile, 29 DEAFNESS, causes of, 123 Bleeding, how to stop from cuts, Diarrhea, how caused, 148; how food, 24; list of diseases caused | Flux, how caused and spread, 148 by, 142; size of, 142 Disinfectants, 168; mistaken ideas Drowning, what to do in apparent, Dust, dangers of breathing, 53; keeping down, 54 EAR and its care, 121-126; danger Eating, irregular habits of, 34 Exercise, 32, 86-89; an aid to di- gestion, 87; danger of over-exer- Exercises, breathing, 138; for arms, 119; care of the, 113-120; how FAINTING, treatment of, 128 24 Foods, as building material, 9; GASTRIC juice, 28 Germ, tuberculosis, in discharges Germs, diseases caused by, 141, Grip, 159-160; how to prevent HABITS, and health, 99; import- ance of, 98-102; lasting, formed Hair, care of the, 73; growth of, 73 laws of, 7; good, a protection IIO Heating foods, II Mumps, care of, 165 Houses, effect on the health, 177- Muscles, that hold body erect, 82; Indigestion, causes of, 32-37 30 Nerves, work of, 90 Nervous system, 90-93; care of Nightshade, antidote for poisoning OPIUM, antidote for poisoning by, 130 JIMSON weed, antidote for poison- Overeating, consequences of, 34 ing by, 130 KIDNEYS, 69-70; function of, 69; Over-exercising, dangers of, 65, 88 PAIN, bad effects of suffering, 96 LAUDANUM, antidote for poisoning Pneumonia, 157 by, 130 Light, for reading, 117, 118 Liquid at meals, 33 Lockjaw, antitoxin for, 167; how Lunches, indigestible, 35 Poison ivy, antidote for, 129 QUARANTINE, necessary in diph- RABIES, cause of, 167; treatment Resistance of body to disease MALARIA, how caused, 163; how Respiration, artificial, 128 spread, 163, 172 Measles, 164; quarantine in, 165 Rest, necessity for, 94; in tuber- |