The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-15
THE BRAIN.
pnits Some Interesting
Bill ny Sy' regarding Our Thought
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-ticie is designed more especial
me tbose vertebrates who are able to
y i0' - use their own brains. It is
keep ended, aa1 for the perusal Of those
mol nm ;mnIv have a gangIion or nerve
VINO 90, r5ioh they are using tezaperari-
&C. een n8tr they can afford brain.
y I is more highly endowed with
@ than any other animal. Still,
oIn-i al animate creation has trace
ma a. orran-decreasing, of course, Sin
o. EFT. '- downward, from man to the
lD'' a- mammals. birds, reptiles, batra-
NV ND fish. till nearly all traces of the
Gh l;n ID disappear in the aHphioEus and
dg gsi.a elerhant has the heaviest brain
Wy animal. Itoften weighs as high
o. ~ ;ra or ten pounds. The whale comes
q M nth a brain that weighs, per
l heh. five pounds. So, great mental
hsPy il the result of quality more
;S stg,'' Tuantity in the matter OF brain
Ti,e brain of an adult man weighs,
-, average, forty-eight ounces, while
yG on ~ the average adult woman weighs
.. lIae ounces, and yet woman is
-. ~. 5[rnerior to man mentally. l have
"a -fh.a;ned this information from q lady
IND s.;and Of mine who is thoroughly trust.
The ne brain is enclosed in bony sphere
nj nc skull The bOnv envelope is
-,;r,tiebt. The brain does not have to
a. I'D II it is in a normal condition.
r. sbonId be kept inside the skull con-
,tontly. and in as compact form as pos
';bla for when it is otherwise great in
Convenience may ensue.
The psrts Of the encaaphlOn, we are
-old are the cerebTuDt, cerebelttt1B, T7SduL-
,ooblooo1ta. ponS rGr0lii, ObIigdt0, piGnis.
5no Any one would think that a
traip With all these things in it would
not feel well, but such Is not the case.
The brain has been found, upon micro
iconic investigation after death, to con-
ain mai ONLY the foreign microbes and
things named above, but also cineri-
ions substance. cranial nerves, motor
orii corpus COLISEUM. corpora strata,
va lialpi. ttbercltlG quG3rege1lind, staccoS !
Irb0r ritG, crLrG cerebri, and other foreign
substances, which must have made life
burden; and yet 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 It; for like the self-cocking revolt
yer, man may struggle along for years
without having an occasion to use it,
and vet when he does want to use it he
wants it very much. We might get
along in society a long time without be-
ing called upon for any mental demon
stration. but some day, without any no.
tee whatever, we might be requested by
our host to express an idea, and we
would feel very much cut up to admit
that we had left our thinker at home on
the piano.
Physicians who have never had much
experience with the brain, never having
had a case of it in their own families,
nor studied its habits in other people,
frequently make an erroneous diagnosis
where patient is suffering fIom brain
trouble. once knew a young doctor,
who has since resigned his lucrative
practice in order to accept highly re-
SpOnsible position as chambermaid in q
isrge Gvery-stable, to make mistake
Of that kind The patient was Ger
man, who was unconscious at the time
the doctor was called. The latter felt
the pulse, examined the tongue, wrote
ont three Prescriptions on different drug
stores Tor medicine to encourage zeal
on the part Of the liver, and went away.
The coroner was no expert IN cases of
That kind, bnt he went at it on the
theorythat the brain had been affected,
and traced up the sym ptoms till he
Showed the jury that it it was q case of
B quick coupl.ng-pin on the brain. 1t
seems that the patient had been exposed
At a saloon on A street. and this was
followed In quick succession by coma,
semicOlon and full stop,
We should take great care OF our
oFaln II we intend to useit. tits a very
sensitive organ, and is easily affected
oy external influences. Very little, after
al, Is known of the location of various
chronological organs in the brains. The
Ieatlon between thought and the ma
i zen. organ which we call the brain is a
gitle misty yet. 1t is not for poor,
.loFtliFed, and puny men to- know
e'eyything. The brain, however, is a
sllous organ. 1t is a good thing in its
Ease' but entirely useless when remov-
T @ the party TO whom it belongs.
ne should not overwork the brain, or
sGain it in trying to think of hard
words chat no one else knows the mean
Jug OF. Neither should we try to pre-
serve our brain in alcohol during Office
a IouiS. Alcohol and gray matter are
ways 2ntagOnistic. Let US take good
oale OF our brains and not wear them
g ~ trying to impart information to
40 nose who do not seek it. Another
Jung thatw should rememberi sthat the
nan NAN weighs about twenty times as
; ;auCh as the tongue, and therefore, there
! - Physiological law which will re-
y a US to tell all we know,-Bill Nye
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