First week. THE BALANCED AQUARIUM. Carbon and nitrogen cycles. Balanced
aquarium and hay infusion compared.
Second week. ONE PROTOZOAN, DEMONSTRATION TO SHOW CHANGES IN SHAPE,
RESPONSE TO STIMULI, SUMMARY OF VITAL PROCESSES IN CELL. Food getting,
digestion, assimilation, oxidation, excretion, growth, reproduction.
Internal structure of protozoan. Protozoa as cause of disease.
Third week. GENERAL SURVEY OF ANIMAL KINGDOM. Survey introduced by museum
trip if possible. Protozoa, worm, insect, fish, mammal. Distinction between
vertebrate and invertebrate. Character of mammalia. Division of labor
emphasized. Man's place in nature.
Fourth week. STUDY OF THE FROG. Relation to habitat, adaptations for
locomotion, food getting, respiration, comparison of frog and fish on
latter point. Osmotic exchange of gases emphasized. Cell respiration.
Fifth week. METAMORPHOSIS OF FROG. Fertilization, cell division, and
differentiation emphasized. Touch on plant and animal breeding. Function of
chromosomes as bearers of heredity. Comparison of bird's egg and mammal
embryo.
Sixth week. FACTORS IN BREEDING. 1. Variation. 2. Selection. 3. Heredity
fixes variation. 4. Hybridizing. 5. Control of environment. Eugenics in
relation to (_a_) crime, (_b_) disease, (_c_) genius. Continuity of germ
plasm. Work of Darwin, Mendel, De Vries, Burbank.
Seventh week. A BRIEF STUDY OF THE GROSS STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN BODY. Skin,
muscles, bones. Removal of lime from bone by HCl to show other substances
and need for lime. Effect of posture, spinal curvature, fractures, sprains.
Eighth week. NEED FOR FOOD. Nutritive value of food. Use of charts to show
foods rich in carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, water, refuse. The
relation of age, sex, work, and environment to the food requirements. What
is a cheap food. Price list of common foods at present time. Efforts of
government to secure a cheap food supply for the people. Digestibility of
foods.
Ninth week. HOW THE FUEL VALUE OF FOOD HAS BEEN DETERMINED. Meaning of
calorie. The 100-caloric portion, its use in determining a daily or weekly
dietary. Standard dietary as determined by Atwater. Comparison of standards
of Chittenden and Voit with those of Atwater.
Tenth week. STUDY OF PUPIL'S DIETARY. Planning ideal meals. Individual
dietaries for one day required from each pupil. Discussions and
corrections. The family dietary. Relation to cost.
Eleventh week. DIGESTION. The digestive system in the frog and in man
compared. Drawings of each. Glands and enzymes. Internal secretions and
their importance. Demonstration of glandular tissues. Experiment to show
digestion of starch in mouth.
Twelfth week. DIGESTION CONTINUED. Digestion of white of egg by gastric
juice. Digestion of starch with pancreatic fluid. Functions of pancreatic
juice. Microscopic examination of emulsion. Reasons for digestion. Part
played by osmosis. Demonstration of osmosis. Non-osmosis of non-digested
foods, comparison between osmosable qualities of starch and grape sugar.
Thirteenth week. ABSORPTION. Where and how foods are absorbed. The
structure of a villus explained. Course taken by foods after absorption.
Function of liver. Blood making the result of absorption. Composition of
blood, red and colorless corpuscles, plasma, blood plates, antibodies.
Microscopic drawing of corpuscles of frog's and man's blood.
Fourteenth week. CIRCULATION OF BLOOD. The heart and lungs of frog
demonstrated. Heart of man a force pump, explain with use of force pump.
Demonstration of beef's heart. Circulation and changes of blood in various
parts of body. Work of cells with reference to blood made clear. Capillary
circulation (demonstration of circulation in tadpole's tail or web of
frog's foot).
Fifteenth week. RESPIRATION AND EXCRETION. Necessity for taking of oxygen
to cells and removal of wastes from cells. Part played by blood and lymph.
Mechanics of breathing (use of experiments). Changes of air and blood in
lungs (experiments). Best methods of ventilation (experiments). Elimination
of wastes from blood by lungs, skin, and kidneys. Cell respiration.
Sixteenth week. HYGIENE OF ORGANS OF EXCRETION, especially care of skin.
The general structure and functions of the central nervous system. Sensory
and motor nerves. Reflexes, instincts, habits. Habit formation, importance
of right habits. Rules for habit formation. Habit-forming drugs and other
agents. Lecture.
Seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth weeks. CIVIC HYGIENE AND SANITATION.
Hygiene of special senses, eye and ear. A well citizen an efficient
citizen. Public health is purchasable. Improvement of environment a means
of obtaining this. Civic hygiene and sanitation. Cleaning up neighborhood,
inquiry into home and street conditions. Fighting the fly. Conditions of
milk and water supply. Relation of above to disease. Work of Board of
Health, etc. Review and Examinations.
SUGGESTED SYLLABUS FOR COURSE BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1
AND ENDING THE FOLLOWING JANUARY