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health intelligible," and that temperance should be the chief topic and occupy at least one-fourth the space in the text books. The report further says : "the tempta- tion has been irresistible to either manufacture evidence or stretch it over points that it does not cover/ 7 The two doctors intimate very broadly that the persons who are referred to as authority by the "department of scientific temperance instruction" are not recognized by men of science as authority on this question. They note a remarkable "disadjustment between this public school education and that in our colleges, universities and medical schools." Also that "an attempt is being deliberately made to deceive them (the children) for a special, supposedly moral, purpose." Another quota- tion, which is somewhat vigorous, reads as follows : "The books, especially those intended for the lower grades, fairly bristle with statements of a character to work upon the fears of the reader, and remind one in this respect of patent medicine advertisements." It is well known that such statements as are required in these school physiologies in order to be approved and endorsed by the W. C. T. U., are statements which no scientific man who is honest with himself and has any regard for his reputation, could possibly write. The only case quoted, of a professional physiol- ogist of standing who wrote one of these text books, shows clearly that this man in his text book for the

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