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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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use ofwine, beer, or cider willtend to the immoderateand uncontrollable use ofmore and more; in otherwords, to the slavery ofalcohol. If the nation is to besaved from this curse ofalcoholism, its schoolsmust teach: i. The nature of alco-hol, the power of a littleto create an uncontrolla-ble appetite for more, andtherefore the danger ofbeginning to drink, evenmoderately ; and the effects of alcohol, as shownby modern science, upon the various organs ofthe human body, especially upon the brain andnervous system, and therefore upon characterand ability. 2. The reasons for obeying other laws ofhealth with physiology enough to make theselaws intelligible, because unhygienic habits oftencause the drink craving. This study must begin with the first years ofschool, and continue as a progressive branchwith a larger development each year, with aplace in the course of study for thirty or fortylessons per year until the subject is covered;the object being to guide in the formation ofright habits.
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On the Weser River, near Bremen, Germany There must be text-books or manuals of in-struction for pupils use, graded to their pro-gressive capacities. The lack of preparation of teachers in thiscomparatively new science makes the prepara-tion and use of good, well graded text-booksfor pupils of the highest importance. When the above conditions have been securedand are maintained in a country which has agood public school system, instrumentalitieshave been set in motion that will revolutionizethe drink habits of that nation. A letter dated a month ago from Leipzig, re-ceived by the speaker in Boston, contains this statement: I hear, soundingthrough all disputations, we have no school text-books for scientific tem-perance education in theGerman language. Does not that lamen-tation set forth the needof other nations repre-sented in this presence?Why may not the supply-ing of that need beginfrom this hour? Thefuture is beckoning us tobe men and women ofaction in this matter.The worlds need

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