Primer of Hygiene

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World Book Company, 1910 - 184 trang
 

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Trang 30 - The digested food is absorbed into the blood vessels that are in these structures. The picture shows villi highly magnified. that this refuse matter be cleared out of the large intestine every day and not allowed to lie in the intestine to sour and decay. The importance of caring for the digestive organs. The work of digesting the food is so important that the organs that do this work fill nearly the whole cavity of the body. "It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong." This is...
Trang 108 - So I am bound to believe, on the evidence, that if you take alcohol habitually, in any quantity whatever, it is to some extent a menace to you. I am bound to believe, in the light of what science has revealed: (1) that you are tangibly threatening the physical structures of your stomach, your liver, your kidneys, your heart, your...
Trang 122 - ... shout, when a whistle blows, or when a bird sings, waves are made to run through the air. When these waves strike the ear, you hear the bell, the shouting, the whistle, or the singing of the bird. If the air waves are large, the sound will be loud. If the air waves are small, the sound will be faint in your ears. The function of the ear. The ear collects the sound waves and makes them strike on the ends of the nerves of hearing. This causes the nerves of hearing to carry messages to the brain,...
Trang 99 - Seven hygienic habits that you ought to form. 1. Keep your teeth clean. 2. Eat moderately and chew your food thoroughly. 3. Breathe pure air whenever it is possible to do so. 4. Go to bed regularly at a reasonable hour. 5. Take proper exercise and hold yourself erect. 6. Learn to rest and to keep yourself calm. 7. Guard yourself, so far as you can, from disease germs.
Trang 108 - ... your nerves, your brain; (2) that you are unequivocally decreasing your capacity for work in any field, be it physical, intellectual, or artistic; (3) that you are in some measure lowering the grade of your mind, dulling your higher...
Trang 108 - I am bound to believe, in the light of what science has revealed: " (i) that you are threatening the physical structure of your stomach, your liver, your kidneys, your heart, your blood vessels, your nerves, your brain; " (2) that you are unquestionably lessening your power to work in any field, be it physical, intellectual, or artistic; " (3) that you are in some measure lowering the grade of your mind, dulling your higher sense, and taking the edge off your morals; " (4) that you are distinctly...
Trang 153 - Not more than half the people who have tuberculosis germs in their mouths know it, and no one should spit on the sidewalk, in the street car, or on the floor of a public building or private house. Germs from a consumptive should be destroyed. The first great point in preventing the spread of germs from a consumptive is to destroy the sputum. It should be received in a pasteboard cup or on a piece of cloth. This should then be burned, and not left where flies can get to it or where the germs may become...
Trang 71 - Swimmers," in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) THE living parts of the body are extremely delicate and tender, and if they were exposed to hurts, to drying, and to disease germs they could not live. We therefore have over the whole body a tough coat which protects the delicate living body parts. The inner part of this coat is alive, but the part which comes in contact with the outside world is dead and keeps falling away in dry scales. The structure of the skin. The skin is composed of an outer layer...
Trang 105 - That, in view of the close connection between alcoholism and tuberculosis, this Congress strongly emphasizes the importance of combining the fight against tuberculosis with the struggle against alcoholism.
Trang 105 - ... he could no longer defend himself against this enemy which is always waiting. The avoidance of alcoholic drinks is an essential part of the campaign against the Great White Plague. The International Congress of Tuberculosis recognized this fact when it adopted the resolution: "We strongly emphasize the necessity and importance of combining the fight against tuberculosis with the struggle against alcoholism.

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