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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. FRIDAY, JULY 29, I 887. WILL THE READER please cast his eye upon the following questions: I. How can it be proved that nicotineis apoison? 2. Why are cigarettesespeciallyharmful ? 3. Is alcohol a food ? 4. What gs the effect of disuse upon a muscle ? 5. Under what names is opiumsold? 6. Underwhatnamesisalcoholdrunk? 7. Whatis the difference between a food and a poison ? 8. Is any thing gained by changing from one narcotic to another ? 9. What is the effect of beer as a drink ? IO. How does cheerfulness help the muscle ? These are the questions given as a test in physiology in the public schools of a prominent Eastern city. They are not addressed to young men about to leave school. No, they are asked of little boys and girls of from eight to ten years of age. This is the examination-paper at the end of the first yearss elementary instruction in physiology. Of ten questions, eight relate to drinking and smoking: the physiology is a mere side issue. These children, who ought to have about as much knowledge of such matters as they should of the methods in vogue at the stock exchange, are actually forced to learn by rote the details of human vice; and that, too, under the name of ' physiology, the only science which they learn. Unconsciousness, nazvetd, is the symbol of childhood. The