Civics and HealthGinn, 1909 - 411 pages |
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Page 411 - Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm or interest or please By harping on that minor chord, disease. " Whatever the weather may be," says he, " Whatever the weather may be, It's the songs ye sing, and the smiles ye wear, That's a-making the sun shine everywhere.
Page 116 - Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us; It wad frac mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
Page 128 - i. In general there is a distinct relationship in children between physical condition and intellectual capacity, the latter varying directly as the former. 2. The endurance (ergographic work) of boys is greater than that of girls at all ages, and the difference seems to increase after the age of nine. 3. There are certain anthropométrie
Page 69 - Usually within twentyfour hours the rash appears, and is finely spotted, evenly diffused, and bright red. The rash is seen first on the neck and. upper part of chest, and lasts three to ten days, when it fades and the skin peels in scales, flakes, or even large pieces. The
Page 130 - are inferior in all physical measurements to boys in the ordinary schools, and this inferiority seems to increase with age. 5. Defects of sight and hearing are more numerous among the dull and backward pupils. These defects should be taken into consideration in the seating of pupils. Only by removing the defects can the best advancement
Page 53 - why a refractory habit should affect the tonsils and the uvula ; but I have always observed that refractories of both sexes and every grade, between a Ragged School and the Old Bailey, have one voice, in which the tonsils and uvula gain a diseased ascendency.
Page 341 - Men have died, from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love"-
Page 69 - The illness is usually well marked and the onset rather sudden, with feverishness, severe backache, and. sickness. About third day a red rash of shotlike pimples, felt below the skin, and seen first about the face and wrists. Spots develop in two days, then form little blisters, and in
Page 123 - sand, snakes, huckleberries, and hornets, and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of his education. Not