The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-09-27
From Halls Journal Of Health.
Maryels of Man.


| While tho gastric inIco has mild. bland
swcetish taste, II possesses tho power of dis.
solving the hardest food that cau bo swal.
lowed; 1t has no influence on :he soft and
delicate fibers of tho living stomach, nor has
IL any upon tho living hand, but, ut tho
moment Of death, il begins to cat thom
away with tho power Of tho strongest acids.
! There is dust on sea, on land, in the valley
and on tho mountain tops; -thore is dus,
/ always aud everywhere; tho atmosphere is
full OF II; II penetrates tho noisomo dungeon
visits tho deepest. darkest caves of tho earth;
no palace door can shut il out, no drawer
so secret as TO escape its presence; evory
breath Of wind dashos it upon tho owe, and
| yet that eye Is not blinded; because thero
is fountain of tho b!andest fluid in nature
incossantly cmptying itself under tho eyc-
lid, which spreads it over tho surface OF the
ball at every wink, aud washes evory atom
of dust away. But this liquid, so we'll
adapted to tho oyo itsolf, has somu acridty,
! which, undor certain circumstances, becomes
so decided as to DO scalding to the skin. and
would rot away tho oyclids wore it not that
along the odges of thcm there uro little oil
manufactures, which spread over their sur.
taco coating US impervious to the liquids
necessary for keeping tho oyoball washed
clean, as tho best varnsh Is impervious to
water.
Tho breath which leaves the lungs has
been so perfectly Invested OF its lifo. giving
properties, that to ro breathe it, unmixod
with other air. tho moment il escapes from
tho mouth would cause immediate death by
suffUcation, while * It hovorod about US. a
moro or loss destructive influence over health
and lite would DO occasioned; but il is
ma IA 4 lnh 4.
common air, that tho instant il escapes tho
lips aud nostrls, 1t asconds to tho higher
regions. above the breathing point. thoro to
bu rectifcd, renovated, and sent back
again. roploto with purity aud life. How
rapidly it ascends is beautifully exhibited
any frosty morning.
But foul and deadly as tho expired air is,
Nature. wisely economical in all bor works
and ways, turns it to good account in its
outward passage through tho organs of
voice, and makes of il tho whisper Of love,
tho soft word of affection, tho tender tonos
OF human sympathy, tho sweetest strains of
ravishing music. tho persuasive oloquenco
OF tho finished orator.
Ii = wGll.mado man ba extended on the
ground, his arms at right angles with the
body. circle, making tho naval its cuntro
will just sake in tho hoad, tho fibgor ends,
and loot.
Tho distance from stop TO too" is precisely
the same as that between tho tips of tho
fingers when tho arms are extended.
The length of tho body is just six timos
that of tho foot; while tho distance from
the edge Of tho hair OH tho forehead, to tho
end of the chin, is ono teEth of tho length
Of the whole stature. e...
OF the sixty-two primary elcmonts known
in nature, only eighteen are found in the
human body, and of thosc, sovop arc metallic
Iron is found in the blood phosphorus in
tho brain; limestone in tho bile; limo in
tho bones; dust aud ashes in all Not
only these oightoen human elements, but
tho whole sixty-two of which tho univorsu
is made, have thoir essential basis in tho
four substances-oxygon, hydrogen, nitrogen.
cHrbon,reprcsonting the more familiar names
of fro, water. saltpotro and charcoal aud
such is man. she lord of earth spark o!
hre. drop of water, grain OF gun.p powder,
all atom of charcoal
But, looking at him in another direction,
these elclncnts shadow forth tho higher
qualities of divIuo nature, of an immortal
existence. In that part is tho caloric which
speaks of irreprcsslb!o activity; in that
drop is the water which speaks of purity
in that grain is tho force by which he sub.
dues all things to himself makes tho wldo
creation the supplior of his wants, and the
servi,or of his pleasure; whilo in that atom
of charcoal, thero is tho diamond, which
speaks at once of light aud purity, of in
dustruc'ibiIty and of resistless progress,
for thore is nothing which outshnes il; it
is purcr than the dew drop; "moth and
rust corrupt" it not, nor can ord nary fires
destroy it, while il cuts its way alko through
brass and adamant and hardest steel. In
that light wo SEQ an oternal progression
toward omniscience; in that purity tho
goodness of divine nature; in that indo-
structibity an immortal existence in that
progress steady accession toward tho
home and bosom of God.