The school physiology journal (1898) (14773200251)

Identifier: schoolphysiology08bost (find matches)
Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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lcohol causeskidney disease inseveral ways. Itunduly excites theactivity of the or-gans ; by impedingoxidation it inter-feres with theproper preparationof nitrogen wasteswhich are broughtto the kidneys inan unfit state forremoval; whenmore than a smallquantity of alcoholis taken, some ofit passes out of the body unchanged throughthe kidneys, and injures their substance.—H.Newell Martin, M.D., F.R.S. A physician notoriously stupid from spiritssaid : I am poisoned from kidney disease.Put me in a hot bath, and purge me, thenrelapsed into a delirious state. The next dayhe died, and his advice was found to have beentrue.—(Journal of Inebriety. Tissue waste is necessary to the well being ofthe living organism. Constant molecular changemust occur in living tissue, the dead, effetematter being removed to make room fox thenew living tissue which rebuilds and strengthensthe system ; therefore alcohol as a food saveris like a man who rebuilds his sidewalk withrotten plank.—M. Willard, M.D.
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■ Their starry cups the cowslips lift,To catch the golden light. 14G SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. IX. Oriental Influence. Jews. IN the exiled Russian Jew is found the futurerepresentative of the race in America. Ele-vated by the influences of modern civilizationabove the narrow teaching engendered by cen-turies of inhuman restrictions and residence inGhettos, he will rise—socially and intellectu-ally—the peer of his fellows in all that tends toadvance culture and promote the weal of hu-manity.—Henry SAMUEr, Morais. Though most of the Jews in America cometo us directly from European countries the racestill retains marked Oriental characteristics,and hence we study them in this connection. It is entirely natural that the Jews of Russiaand Eastern Europe, after the unspeakable per-secutions of 1881, should have fled to America.Jews were no strangers here as far back as theearly settlement of New Amsterdam. But mostof these earlier comers are already amalgamate