Anatomy and physiology : designed for academies and families / by Calvin Cutter.

  • Cutter, Calvin, 1807-1873?
Date:
1847
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Credit: Anatomy and physiology : designed for academies and families / by Calvin Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PEEFACE. Agesilaus, king of Sparta, when asked what things boys should learn, replied, those which they will practise when they become men. As health requires the observance of the laws inherent to the different organs of the human sys- tem, so not only boys, but girls, should acquire a knowledge of the laws of their organization. If sound morality depend upon the inculcation of correct principles in youth, equally so does a sound physical system depend on a correct physical education during the same period of life. If the teacher and parents who are deficient in moral feelings and senti- ments, are unfit to communicate to children and youth, those high moral principles demanded by the nature of man, so are they equally incompetent directors of the physical train- ing of the youthful system, if ignorant of the organic laws and the physiological conditions upon which health and disease depend. Hence, the study of the structure of the human system, and the laws of the different organs, are subjects of interest to all, — the young and the old, the learned and the un- learned, the rich and the poor. Every scholar, and partic-