New York: American Book Company, 1890. Hardcover, 5 x 7". 90 pp. Green cloth over boards with black lettering and illustration on cover, corner bumping and spine cloth fraying on edges and ends with some stains. Some ink stamps on front paste-down endpaper and previous owner markings (partially erased) on front free endpaper, several minor pencil marks and stains throughout. Good condition.

This is the Authorized Physiology Series, No. 1 from American Book Company which was intended for primary school years to teach" laws of practical hygiene" and physiology. Contents include: why we need to eat, kinds of foods, the body needs water, salt and lime, drinks that contain alchol, how food is changed into blood, the blood, how the blood is purified, the framework of the body, the muscles, brains and nerves, our five senses and the skin. Nicely illustrated throughout with small medical drawings.