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Title: A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition)

Author: Calvin Cutter

Release Date: November 24, 2009 [EBook #30541]

Language: English

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A
TREATISE
ON
ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY,
AND HYGIENE

DESIGNED FOR
COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, AND FAMILIES.

BY CALVIN CUTTER, M.D.

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WITH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ENGRAVINGS.
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REVISED STEREOTYPE EDITION.

NEW YORK:
CLARK, AUSTIN AND SMITH.
CINCINNATI:--W. B. SMITH & CO.
ST. LOUIS, MO.:--KEITH & WOODS.

1858.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

CALVIN CUTTER, M. D.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District
of Massachusetts.

C. A. ALVORD, Printer,
No. 15 Vandewater Street, N. Y.

PREFACE.

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 system, so not only boys, but girls, should
acquire a knowledge of the laws of their organization. If sound
morality depends 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 sentiments, 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 training of the youthful