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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
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|-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;" width=5%|1. |width=30% style="padding-right:0.5em;"|The Bones (chap. ii, p. 13). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;" width=5%| |width=60%|Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the bones (35). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;" rowspan=3|2. |style="padding-right:0.5em;" rowspan=3|The Muscles (chap. iii, p. 42). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|1. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on the muscles (44). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|2. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on strength (45). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|3. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of tobacco on the muscles (46). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;"|3. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Physical Exercise (chap. iv, p. 56). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"| |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol and tobacco on physical exercise (58). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;"|4. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Food and Drink (chap. V, p. 70). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"| |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of drinking tea and coffee (72). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;" rowspan=10|5. |style="padding-right:0.5em;" rowspan=10|Origin and Nature of Fermented Drinks (chap. vi, p. 81). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|1. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Change produced by fermentation (74). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|2. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Ferments and what they do (75). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|3. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Alcohol a poison (76). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|4. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Narcotic poisons (76). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|5. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|The alcoholic appetite (77). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|6. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|The evils of overdrinking (78). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|7. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Wine, and why it should be avoided (79). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|8. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Beer: Its origin. Relation to drunkenness (80). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|9. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Distilled liquors (81). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|10. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|The cost of the alcoholic vice (note, p. 89). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;" rowspan=3|6. |style="padding-right:0.5em;" rowspan=3|Digestion (chap. vii, p. 92). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|1. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on the stomach digestion (99). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|2. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on the liver (100). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|3. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of tobacco on digestion (101). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;" rowspan=4|7. |style="padding-right:0.5em;" rowspan=4|The Blood and its Circulation (chap. viii, p. 122). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|1. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|How alcohol gets into the blood (117). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|2. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on the circulation (116). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|3. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on the heart (119). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|4. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of tobacco on the heart (120). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;" rowspan=3|8. |style="padding-right:0.5em;" rowspan=3|Breathing (chap. ix, p. 142). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|1. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol and tobacco upon the lungs (132). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|2. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Alcohol and the bodily heat (133). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|3. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Alcohol in hardship (note, p. 160). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;"|9. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|How the Body is Covered (chap. x, p. 161). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"| |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol and tobacco upon the skin (145). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;" rowspan=12|10. |style="padding-right:0.5em;" rowspan=12|The Nervous System (chap. xi, p. 177). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|1. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Narcotics (162). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|2. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|General effect of alcohol on the nervous system (163). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|3. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on the brain tissue (164). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|4. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Final result of alcoholic poisoning (165). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|5. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Inherited craving for alcohol (166). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|6. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Tobacco and its use (167). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|7. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Evil effect of tobacco (note, p. 203). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|8. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of tobacco upon young people (168). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|9. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Tobacco from a moral point of view (169). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|10. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Opium (170). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|11. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Practical hints about opium (171). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"|12. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Chloral and other poisons (172). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;"|11. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|The Special Senses (chap. xii, p. 210). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"| |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the special senses (196). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;"|12. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Excretion (chap. xiii, p. 235). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"| |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol on the kidneys (202). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;"|13. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Throat and Voice (chap. xiv, p. 243). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"| |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Effect of alcohol and tobacco on the throat and voice (207). |-style="vertical-align:text-top;" |style="text-align:right;"|14. |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|Simple Matters of Everyday Health (chap. xv, p. 249). |style="text-align:right;border-left:1px solid black;"| |style="padding-right:0.5em;"|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-