Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-01-17

languor we sometimes feel Ia the hot
days IN SUNNI r. when tie atmosphere is
surcharged with moisture, and refuses to
receive the parspiration from the surface
of the body. The skin, like the lungs, i,
an eXcretory organ, aud when the twen-
Iiy-eight miles OF microscopic tubing is
damed up, lis baneful effects may easily
be imagined. Not so the effects of dry
air. II favors evaporation. By produ
cling perspiralon and rapid Transportation
from the pores of the skin, (says Wy
man. ii braces and invigorates the body
and produces exhileration of spirit. "a
modern teacher informs US there is dy-
ing wind in Africa the Harmauen5-
which is so intense as to wither, warp and
shrivel everything in It's course. The
eyes, lips and palate, become dry and
painful. Bot at the same time lis great
physician. " At its appearance, inter-
mittent fevers disappear; epidemic feTers
pass off at lis first breath, and small pox
/ becomes incommuncable."
The rapid vital changes constantly 60
/ ing on in the human system, must furnish
the SUDDEN, with material for rich thought.
| Life and growth, " change and decay"
tearing down and building up, are the fit
ting terms, to represent the mysterious
work of the human organization. In
/ the midst of Life we are in Death, may
be truly SAID of our OWN coporeal natures.
/ We are daily living and daily dying. The
! food we consume, furnishes the living OF
ganism, the material for growth and nour-
lshmen, The body is supplied with TWO
sets of organs, those capable of receiving
the food in lis crude state, and manufac-
turing it to suit the growth of each living
tissue; the other having he power 10
gather up all the poison, efete and worn
out materials, and expel them from the
system.
| An adult person consumes about ton
and half of solid and fluid matter an
nually, and had not the system he pow
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asirous consequences would DE the result.
/ But wise nature has provided a counter
set of organs 10 Just balance this parpetE-
al demand for food. Supply and waste
are nearly equal, Debtor and credit the
same. Their hooks are being figured up
and cancelled every moment. The food
undergoes many changes before convert
ed into that great nourisher Of all living
tissues the 6I0oI. And this nys' erious
fluid contains all The elements of which
the body is composed; bone, muscle nerve,
tendon, hair and nails, all, ev-ry vital
substance reaches out as the blood passes
By, and takes to itself just that portion
which will supply lis own wants. The
beauty, regularity and wisdom Of nature,
is here wonderfully displayed. She
makes no mistakes. Each organ takes
Up and assimlates lis own kind and leaves
its neighbor organ lis own also.
The vitalizing substance, the blood, in
an ordinary individual weighs % pounds.
:. There is presen, in the lungs about one
half pound, and in the heart at every beat
two ounces i, sent forward. Il ruShes on
at the rate of 30 feet in a minute, the
whole blood passing through the lungs
every two and a-half minutes, or 20 times
in one hour. In period of great exertIon
the rapidly with which the blood flows
hot Ha lct n Z
circulates in less than a single minute.
/ johnson According to these data, all
the blood In the body throbs through the
circulatorv vent 500 or 700 times in day,
or total movement through the vent OF
10000 or $4,000 pounds of blood IN p
hours. " To assist II carrying forward
the several bodily changes, various Juices
are poured out each day, according - the
latest estimates, as follows i-GastEIc
iuice IA 10 IS pounds: vile ) to 4 pounds
pancreative iulce one-half pound Inies-
final iuice one-haif pound. AT the same
time there escapes from the lungs nearly
> pounds of CO bonic acid, and one and
udlI pOulluS U 'ttt+tf y t"1'"- '''N''
loses by perspiration, two and one-half
pounds Of water, and there escapes IN
other directions about two and a-half lbs.
of matter" (Dr. Chambers.)-
/ These facts force upon US the truth
that a. 10 a single life Time an individual
j NAV have shifted the substance Of his
. corporeal being more thln q thousand
, times" YET man IS the same in organic
+ s,ructre-the same boae, the same nerve,
, the same thoughts still cling 10, and abide
+ 10 him. Wonderful- mp.icated-mys-
terious man. 4 limb may br fractured
bone broken-disease may invade its
, sacred walls, and bear off IN triumph a
s living tissue. yet nature IS not baked,
= but excited to more vigorous action to re-
pair the fractured limb. the broken bone
} and he missing tissue. II an incl sion Is
D made in the flesh, the smallest wound. .the
sting Of Tee. the prick OF pin, Or the