The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-24

warmth when he lay down, became con-
suming fire before he rose up. His foot
was burnt off above the ankle, and when,
roused ia the morning Ivy the man who
sunerintended the lime-kiln, he put his
stnmp. unconscious Of his misfortune, TO
the ground, the extremity crumbled INTO
fragments. Whether he had been luiied
into torpor by the carbonic acid driven
off from the limestone, or whatever else
NAV have been the cause of his insensi-
bility, he felt no pain, and through his
very exemption from this lot Of human
ity expired fortnight afterward in Brls-
tol hospital.
Without the warning voice of pain life
would be series of similar disasters.
The crab, to the lasting detriment OF
chemistry, might have eaten off the fu-
turc Sir Humphreys foot while he was
swimming, without his entertaining the
slightest suspicion of the ravages which
were going on. Had he survived the in
iuries from the crab he would yet have
| been cut off in the morning of his IA
nous career if, when experimenting
upon the gases, the terrible oppression
at his chest had not warned him to cease
inhaling the carburetted hydrogen, nor,
/ after long struggle for life, would he
have recovered to say to his alarmed as
sistant, " I do not think / shall die"
Without physical pain infancy would
| l,o ;p,o1 nr paricb hofora oynariono
could inform it Of its danger Lord
| Kaimes advised parents to cut the fin.
gers Of their children cunningly" with
knife, that the little innocents Nigh,
blade ebe1uSu suffering with the glitterins
worse injury; but if no smart acc si17S
MED the wound they would cut up thei
own fingers with the same glce that the,
cut ZIP stick, and burn them in can
! ole with the same delight that they burr
a piece Of paper in the fire. Withou
PAIN we could not proportion our actions
to the strength of our frames, or our ex
ertions to its powers Of endurance.
In the impetuosity of youth we should
strike blows that would crush our hand:
and break our arms; we should tak(
leaps that would dislocate our limbs
and, no longer taught by fatigue that thu
muscles needed repose, we should con
tinue our sports and our walking tour
till we had worn out the living tissue
with the same Inconsistencies that WI
now wear out our coat and shoes. TIL,
very nutriment which is the support o
life would frequently prove our death
Mirabeau said of man who was as idl
as he was corpulent that his only us,
was to show how far the skin woul,
stretch without bursting. Withou
pain this limit would be constant,
exceeded and epicures, cxperiencin.
no uneasy sensations, would continue
their festivities until they met with tn
. fate of the frog in the fable who wa
ambitious of emulating the size of tn
OK.
Sir Charles Bell mentions the case O
: patient who had lost the sense of hea
in his right hand, and who, unconsciou
that the cover of pan which ha,
fallen into the fire was burning hot, tool
it out and deliberately returned it to it
proper place, to the destruction of tn
skin Of the palm and fingers. This 0
itself would be an accident of incessan
occurrence if the monitor were wantin.
which makes us drop such things quickc
than we pick them up. Pain is tn
grand preseryer of existence, the sleep
ty and makes us both start away from
the injury that is present and guart
against it carefully in the time to come
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