Massachusetts Teachers' Association
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Excerpt from The Massachusetts Teacher, 1855, Vol. 8 But it is worthy of note that the activity of the circulatory app. And that of relation should be harmonious. They must therefore be connected, as is represented by the sympathetic ganglia and nerves. AS all these kinds of apparatus serve to organize the body and preserve it, they may be properly grouped, and called the grand apparatus of Organic Life, which, added to that of Rela tion, form the body. Thus by a glance of the e e, the use, relation, and dependence of all parts are seen, an the Italics give hygienic hints, to wit: Properly 1. Educate the Mind. 2. Exercise and repose app. Of R. 3. Rub and clothe the body. 4. Pay attention to. 5. Air. 6. Water and food. 7. Cleanliness and regularity of habits. Of course, each nucleus of the above tableau might be expanded and form a tableau by itself, but the object in this case was, instead of expanding, to condense to the utmost pos sible degree, and present to the mature mind the whole matter in, as it were, a nutshell, so that each word should be a chap ter, and the half a page an entire volume. 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.
