The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-24
InE Brain.
Bill Nye Emits Some Interesting Ideas
Regarding Our Thought Manufactures.

This article is designed more espe-
cially for those vertebrates who are able
20 keep and use their own brains. 1t is
rot intended for the perusal of those
who simply have ganglion or nerve
center which they are using temporari-
" until they can afford brain.
Man is more highly endowed with
brain than any other animal Still,
nearly all animate creation has trace
of this organ-decreasing, of course, in
intensity downward, from man TO the
lower mammals, birds, reptiles, batra-
CHA and fishes, TIL nearly all traces OF
the brain disappear in the anlphiorus
and dude.
The elephant has the heaviest brain
of any animal. 1t often weighs as high
as nine or ten pounds. The whale comes
next. with a brain that weighs, per-
hap, five pounds. So, great mental
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 vet woman Is
far superior to man mentally. L have
obtained this information from a lady
friend of mine who is thoroughly trust
worthy.
The brain is inclosad in a bouv sphere
called the skull. This bony envelope is
air-tight The brain does not have to
be aired if it is in normal condition.
Ii should be kept inside the skull con-
stantly, and in aS compact form as pos
sible, for when it is otherwise great in
convenience may ensue.
The parts of the encaphalOn, we are
told, are the cerebranl. ccTebe' linn, me
duiId ObLOngdta, pORS rarOlii, Obiigato.
piGIliSsimO. ANY one would think that
brain with all these things in it would
not feel well. but such l. 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 sub tance, cranial nerves, motor
Ocuii. corpus cOllOSUBl, corpora StriItG,
thaimi, tuJerculd quGdregcnaiad, STAG
cato. Gr60r ritG. cruFd cerebri, and
other foreign substances. which must
have made life Il 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 have been admitted into the
brain. The brain is one of the most
useful of all our organs, and, therefore.
We should use every precaution TO re-
tain il; for like the self-cocking revol-
yer, man may struggle along for
years without having occasion 10 use it,
and vet when he does want to use it he
wants il very much. We might get
along in society long time without b.
ing called upon f2r any mental demon
STRAIT on, but some day. without any no.
tice whatever. we might lie requested
by our host TO express an idea, and we
would feel very much cut up to adm {
that we had left our thinker at home on
the piano.
Physicians who have never had much
experience with the brain, never having
had case OF it in their own families.
nor stu lied it, habits in other people.
frequently make an erroneous diagnosis
WHERE patient is suffering from brain
trouble. / once knew a young doctor.
who has since resigned his lucrative
pract CO in order to &C cept highly re-
SpOnSible position as chambermaid in
large liveIy-Stable, to Ike Il mistak .
of that kinI. The patient was Il Ger
man. who was unconscious a the M
the doctor was called. The latter felt
the pulse. examined the tongue, wro;e
out three prescriptions on different drug
stores for medicine 10 encourage zeal
on the part of the liver. an went away
The coroner WAS no expert in cases of
that kind. but h. went at it on the
theory that the bTair had been affected,
and traced up the symptoms till he
showed the jury that 1t VS. ease of
quick coupling-pin on the brain. Ii
seems that tn patient had been exposed
at saloon on \ street, and this WAS
followed in quick succession by coma,
semi-cOlon and full stop.
We should take great care of ou
brain if We intend to Use it. Ii is very
sensitive organ. ana * easily affected
Nv tiN
all, is known of the location of various
chronological organs in the brain. The
relation between thought and the ma
terial organ which we call the brain is
little misty vet. Ii is not for poor,
short lived, and puny man to know
everything. The brain. however. is q
curious organ. 1t is a good thing in Ifs
place, but entirely useless when re.
moved from the party to whom it be,
longs. We should not Overwork the
brain, or strain it in trying TO think OF
hard words that no one else knows the
meaning Of Neither should we try tn
preserve our brain in alcohol during
office hours. Alcohol and gray matter
are always antagonistic. Let uS take
good care of our brains and not wear
them out trying TO impart information
10 those who do not seek it. Another