The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-04-02
THE SKIN AND THE BLOOD,

NO. 1.-THE SKIN.
There is a skin without and skin within,
A covering skin and lining skin,
But the skin within is tie skin without
Doubled inwards and carried completely thro' out
The palate, the nostrils, the windppe and thr oat
Are all OF them lin ed with this inner coat;
Which through every part is made to extend
Lung, liver and bowels, from end to end.
The outside skin lie o marvellous plan
For exuding the dregs of the flesh of man
While the inner extracts from the food and the ali
What Is needed the waste ia his flesh to repair.
While it goes well with the outside skin,
You may feel pretty sure all's right within:
For If anything puts the inner skin out
OF oIder, 1t troubles the skin without.
The doctor, you know, examines your tongue
II he feels tsat vonr hand is hot and dTy
He is able to tell You the reason why.
Too much brandy, whisky, or gin,
Is apt to disorder the skin within
While, If dirty or dry, the skin without
Refuse to let the sweat come ont.
Good people al have care OF your skin,
Both that without and that within
To tn last little else than water, well hope
Bet always be very particular where
You get your water, your food and your air;
For II these be tainted or rendered impure,
1t will have it effect on your bloOd-be sure!
The food which will ever for you be the best
Is that you like most and can soonest digest;
All unripe irui, and decdying fesh
Beware of, and fish that is not very fresh.
Your water, transparent and pure as you think it,
Had better be iter'd and boil'd ere you drink il,
Unless you know surely that nothing unsound
Can have got TO 1t over or under the ground.
But all things the most, would have you b, ware
Of breathing The poison of once breathed air:
Wnen in bed whether ont or at home you may be,
Always open your window and let 1t go free.
With clothing and exercise keep yourself warm,
And change your clothes quickly if drenched in a
storm;
For cold caught by chilling the outside skin
Flies at once to the delicate lining within.
All you who thus kindly take care of your skin,
And attend to its wants without and within,
Need never of small pox feel any fears,
And your skin may last you hundred years
NO. 1.-THE BLOOD.
Six thousand years after his era began
The astonishing fact was discovered by man,
That the blood in his body does not remain still,
Certain vessels calrd arteries hidden within
rhe body conduct from the heart 10 the skin;
Which the go called veins throughout every part
Jt the system conauct from the skin to the heart
The heart every instant gets fll'd with new blood
'repar' as you see from the air and the food
And this new blood is driven throughout the
whole frame,
Is from a force-pump by the force ofthe came.
The blood in its passage leaves everywhere
ome of what it has got from the food and the air,
Which is ali taken up. ere a momelt be gone,
% replenish the tissue, the fat, and the bone.
the whole structure-bone, muscle or
skin
Where the arteries end the veins begin,
md changing It's color from red blood 10 black.
he blood enters the veius and is carried back.
When the old blood arrives by the veins at the
heart
I is mixed and churned up in a chamber apart,
With thick milky fluid, nutritious and good,
Which the stomach and bowels have drawn IRON
the food.
t is then driven off by similar force
20 the lungs, where the air-cell5 receive II in
course
Where at every breath it takes up through the skin
he material parts of the air within.
nd once more forced back on it's fountain head,
% the artery chamber ii rushes again,
md Is ready to start upon service again.
That We get from the air is equal in weight
o what We derive from the food that We eat;
Int what we breathe out, must tell you once
more,
OF poisons the worst, as told you before.
a much clearer light you now may perceive
What it's hoped you'll hold fast and devoutly
believe,
hat for health and enjoyment the very best fare
the soundest of food and the purcst of air.
hen show that you value your blood and your
skin.
emove every nuisance without ana within;
bey all the laws that are made to the end,
nd regard the inspector of health as your friend.
your house has taint, employ in good time
ither carbolc acid or chloride OF lime;
ut CT all disinfectants the earth Is the best
mels cover d by earth are forever at rest.
18th all these precautions don't fear any harm,
nd yield to no panic or foolish alarm:
hen the enemy comes, be brave but prepared
urvey your defences and stand on yonr guard?
-AuStrd!dSiQB.