Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes / With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System

by Jane Andrews

1st. The stomach prepares the food for the blood to take.

2d. The blood is pumped out of the heart to carry food to every part of the body, and to take away worn-out matter.

3d. The lungs use fresh air in making the dark, impure blood, bright and pure again.

4th. The skin carries away waste matter through the little perspiration tubes.

All this work goes on, day and night, without our needing to think about it at all; for messages are sent to the muscles by the nerves which keep them faithfully at work, whether we know it or not.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

1. What covers the body?

2. What lines the body?

3. Where are the nerves of the skin?

4. What is perspiration? What is the common name for it?