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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
| 1. | The Bones (chap. ii, p. 13). | Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the bones (35). | |
| 2. | The Muscles (chap. iii, p. 42). | 1. | Effect of alcohol on the muscles (44). |
| 2. | Effect of alcohol on strength (45). | ||
| 3. | Effect of tobacco on the muscles (46). | ||
| 3. | Physical Exercise (chap. iv, p. 56). | Effect of alcohol and tobacco on physical exercise (58). | |
| 4. | Food and Drink (chap. V, p. 70). | Effect of drinking tea and coffee (72). | |
| 5. | Origin and Nature of Fermented Drinks (chap. vi, p. 81). | 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). | ||
| 6. | Digestion (chap. vii, p. 92). | 1. | Effect of alcohol on the stomach digestion (99). |
| 2. | Effect of alcohol on the liver (100). | ||
| 3. | Effect of tobacco on digestion (101). | ||
| 7. | The Blood and its Circulation (chap. viii, p. 122). | 1. | How alcohol gets into the blood (117). |
| 2. | Effect of alcohol on the circulation (116). | ||
| 3. | Effect of alcohol on the heart (119). | ||
| 4. | Effect of tobacco on the heart (120). | ||
| 8. | Breathing (chap. ix, p. 142). | 1. | Effect of alcohol and tobacco upon the lungs (132). |
| 2. | Alcohol and the bodily heat (133). | ||
| 3. | Alcohol in hardship (note, p. 160). | ||
| 9. | How the Body is Covered (chap. x, p. 161). | Effect of alcohol and tobacco upon the skin (145). | |
| 10. | The Nervous System (chap. xi, p. 177). | 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). | ||
| 11. | The Special Senses (chap. xii, p. 210). | Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the special senses (196). | |
| 12. | Excretion (chap. xiii, p. 235). | Effect of alcohol on the kidneys (202). | |
| 13. | Throat and Voice (chap. xiv, p. 243). | Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the throat and voice (207). | |
| 14. | Simple Matters of Everyday Health (chap. xv, p. 249). | Pernicious use of alcoholic liquors in accidents and emergencies (225). |
This, then, is "scientific temperance"—a work on human physiology 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-
