In a series of letters to a little girl, the French educator Jean Macé follows a mouthful of bread through the human body, from the tongue and teeth to the stomach, blood and muscles, and then compares the organs of animals. It was translated by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, author of Parables from Nature, from the eighth French edition.
A pioneering science book for children; its physiology is of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.