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Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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only statement that approached a reason Every hand went up, and the pupil called up-on replied, If they are not washed off they will plugup the pores. Teacher: You are right, and if the poresare clogged so that the impurities which shouldpass off through the pores of the skin do not,what may happen? It may make us sick. Teacher : Who is ready now to answer thequestion on the board, Why should we bathe? Out of all the replies, the best was written onthe board : We should batheto wash off the impu-rities and keep thepores of the skinopen. Then followed prac-tical questions andanswers about the besttime and manner ofbathing. A broad-browed, thoughtfulboy said : Miss Ames, ryoutold us, and the booksays that food soaksthrough the walls ofthe blood-vessels giv-ing each part of ourbodies, the bones, thebrain and muscles,and so on, just thekind of food eachneeds. Why doesntthe food soak into thesweat tubes and comeout in the perspira-tion? For a moment theteacher looked puz-zled, then said :
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Beautiful hands are those that doWork that is earnest, brave and true.Moment by moment the whole day through. why the food that feeds the bones does notsoak out on the muscles to feed them. Whatwould happen if it did? We could not play ball if it did, becauseour muscles would be stiff like bones. Yes, that is true. No one can tell why thefood does not soak into the sweat glands. It isone of the wonderful things about our bodies thatGod has so made them that the right food goesto that part of the body which needs it. The children agreed that it was wonderful,adding, Its jolly to know as much as we canabout it, anyway. was that the master of the school and all theteachers took daily baths. The pupils had nobooks as a guide, and were thus turned off withonly the dogmatic statement of an unpreparedteacher. Result, no logical reason lodged inthe intelligence of the pupils for the truth shewished to teach. In the first case, the pupils had the threesources of information which the school of

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