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Hygienic Physiology: With Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Dr. Joel Dorman Steele. Year: 1886

The skeleton is the image of death. Its unsightly appearance instinctively repels us. We have seen, however, what uses it subserves in the body, and how the ugly-looking bones abound in nice contrivances and ingenious workmanship.

p. 29

     In the preface Steele says he meant this as a book for school-age children. A bit morbid if you ask me (some of the drawings are spectacularly creepy really and it talks about opium at length). This book also has a stamp from a book seller where either my great-grandma or her mother bought it. ‘E.S. German’s Son’ at 28 South Second Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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