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Excerpt from Our Bodies and How We Live: An Elementary Text-Book of Physiology and Hygiene for Use in Schools It is now twenty years since this book was first published and ten years since it was revised and reprinted. Meanwhile many important discoveries have been made concerning the nature and propagation of bacteria, and many changes have taken place in the attitude of scientific men towards the causes and restrictions of contagious diseases and the promotion of personal and public health. The author has taken advantage of the demand for another revision to rewrite, rearrange, and illustrate this book in accord with the latest teachings in this branch of science. In this edition, as in previous editions, it has been the aim of the author to prepare a text-book for elementary schools which should set forth clearly and tersely the more important and interesting facts about our bodily life. It is believed that boys and girls in elementary schools should have an opportunity to learn a few essential things about the anatomy and physiology of their own bodies. These facts in themselves are of comparatively little worth unless they become the means of enabling our young folks to understand thoroughly the simple laws of health and to apply them intelligently to their daily living. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.