Principles of Domestic Science, As Applied to the Duties and Pleasures of Home: A Textbook for the Use of Young Ladies in Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Principles of Domestic Science, as Applied to the Duties and Pleasures of Home: A d104book for the Use of Young Ladies in Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges

Importance of some knowledge of the body and its needs - Fearful re sponsibility of entering upon domestic duties in ignorance - The funda mental vital principle - Cell-life - Wonders of the microscope - Cell multiplication - Constant interplay of decay and growth necessary to life - The red and white cells of the blood - Secreting and converting power - The nervous system - The brain and the nerves - Structural arrangement and functions - The ganglionic system - The nervous fluid - Necessity of properly apportioned exercise to nerves of sensation and of motion - Evils of excessive or insufficient exercise - Equal develop ment of the whole - Pages 104 - 112.

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