Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

| This article, writes Bill Nye to the
San Francisco Argonaut, is designed
more especially for those vertebrates
who are able to keep and use their own
brains. 1t is not intended for the pc,
rusal of those who simply have gangli.
| on or nerve-center which they are
using temporarily until they can afford
| brain.
Man is more highly endowed with
| brain than any other animal. Still,
| nearly all animate creation has a trace
of this organ-decreasing. of course, in
intensity downward, from man to the
lower mammals, birds, reptiles. batra-
CHA, and fishes. till finally all traces of
the brain disappear in the amphiorus
and dude.
The elephant has the heaviest brain
Of any animal. II often weighs as high
as nine or ten pounds. The whale
comes next, with brain that weighs,
perhaps, five pounds. So, great men,
tai strength is the result of quality
more than quantity in the matter of
brain tissue.
The brain of an adult man weighs. on
an average, forty-eight ounces, while
that of the average adult woman weighs
forty-four ounces, and yet woman is
far superior to man mentally. / have
obtained this information from lady
friend of mine who is thoroughly trust
worthy.
The brain is enclosed in bony sphere
called the skull. This bony envelope
is air-tight. The brain does not have
to be aired, it is in a normal condition.
1t should be kept inside the skull con-
stantly, and in as compact form as pos
sible, for when it is otherwise great in
convenience NAV ensue.
The parts of the encaphalon, we are
told, are the cere6raBl, cerebelluna, me-
dsttta. obloRgata, pOns rarolu, obiigato,
ptantsSfnlo. Anyone would think that
brain with all these things in it would
not feel well, but such is not the case.
The brain has been found upon, micro
scopic investigation after death, to con-
tain not only the foreign microbes and
things named above, but also a cineri-
tious substance. cranial nerves, motor
oculi, corpus cottoSum, corpora strata,
Hdtrli, tnbercuia quddregenina. STAG
cato. drbOr rita, crurd, cerebYT, and
other foreign substances, which must
have made life burden, and vet
death did not result for many years.
Nothing, however, is so destructive
to brain tissue as daylight. Many
have died almost instantly after light
and fresh air were freely admitted into
the brain. The brain is one of the
most useful of all organs. and, there
fore, we should use every precaution to
retain it; for, like the self-cocking re-
volver, man may struggle along for
years without having occasion to use
it, and yet when he does want to use it
he wants it very much. We might get
along in society for a long time without
being called upon for any mental dem
but some day. without any
notice whatever, we might be request
ed by our host to express an idea, and |
we would feel very much cut up to ad- |
nit that we had left our thinker at |
home on the piano.
Physicians who have never had much J
experience with the brain, never hay- |
ng case of it in their own families |
lor studied its habits in other people,
frequently make an erroneous diagnosis
where patient is suffering from brain
rouble. l once knew young doctor,
Who has since resigned his lucrative
practice in order to accept highly re-
ponsible position as chambermaid in
iyery-stable. to make mistake of that
,ind. The patient was German, who
vas unconscious at the time the doctor
vas called. ! he latter felt the pulse,
the tongue. wrote out three
on different drug stores
or medicine to encourage zeal on the
art of the liver, and went away.
The coroner was no expert in cases
f that kind. but he went at it on the
heory that the brain had been affected,
nd traced up the symptoms till he
howed the jury that it was case of
uick coupling-pin on the brain. 1t
GEMS that the patient had been expos
at saloon on A street, and this was
,llowed in quick succession by coma,
and full stop.
We should take great care of our
rain if we intend TO use it, IL is a
cry sensitive organ, and is easily af-
'cted by external influences. Very
title, after all. is known of the location |
various chronological organs in the
rain. The relation between thought
nd the material organ viii h we call
'e brain is little misty yet. 1t is not ,
r the poor, short-lived. and puny man t
know everything. The brain, how ,
'er. Is curious organ. 1t is good
ing in its place, but entirely useless I
hen removed from the party to whom j
belongs. We should not overwork L
e brain. or strain it in trying to think ?
hard words that no one else knows v
e meaning of. Neither should we S
to preserve our brains in alcohol O
ring office hours. Alcohol and gray S
alter are always antagonistic. Let b
take good care of our brains and not S,
'ar them out trying TO impart infor- ft
ltion to those who do not seek it. la
Iother thing that We should remem- m
: is that the brain weighs about