Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-06-19
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.
The Fearful and Wonderful" Mechan-
ism ofthe Human System
Graphically Portrayed.

following beautiful description of the labor.
atOries of the human system. We think we
have never read finer OF more Trustworthy
one. ~
"Man is the greatest of all chemical
laboratories. Magnify the smallest
cell of the body and what factory is
spread beforethee eyes, countless cham
bers in which are globes Of air, masses
Of solid matter, globules OF, dying
liquid; a flash comes and the whole
is consumed and needful lheatis car
ried into every partof the system.
Electrical forces also generate and are
conveyed to the brain, the muscles
and the various nerve centers.
In another set of a million cham
bers we see various gases and vapors.
BY chemical action thesea are changed
and purified in the lungs and the
skin. The blood we often say is
great living viper. In its current are
masses which the air in the lungs did
not affect; blocks of chalk; slabs of
tartar; pieces of bone-ash; strings of
albumen; drops of molasses, and lines
of alcohol. How are these waste
masses disposed of? Begin where you
will in this great stream you must
come to the purifying places of the
system. Here is all activity and an
invisible force reaches out into the
stream, seizes and carries this mass
OF waste into vast trenches, thence
into smaller reservoir, and finally
into larger reservoir, which regular
ly discharges its contents.
This separation of lime, uric acid
and other waste material from the
blood without robbing it of a particle
of the life fluid, passes human COM
prehension. In health, this blood
purifying process is carried on with
out our knowledge. The organs in
which it is done are faithful servants
whose work is silent as long as health
remains.
people strangely wait until pain
strikes nerve before they will realize
that they haye any trouble. They
do not know that pain concerns chief
ly the exterior not the interior of the
body. A certain set of nerves con-
meet these blood-purifying organs
with the brain. They may not gnaw
and bite as does the tooth-ache or a
scratch, but they regularly, silently
report. When these organs are fail
ing these nerves indicate it by draw.
ing the blood from the face and cheek
leaving the lip and eye blanced, by
sending uric acid poison into the
smallest veins, the skin then becom.
ing gray, yellow or brown. They
also prevent the publication of the
blood in the lungs and cause pulmo.
nary difficulties, WEAKNESS and pain
Who enjoys perfect health, especially
in this land where we burn the can.
die in one mass? The athlete breaks
down in the race; the editor falls al
his desk; the merchant succumbs in
his counting-room. These events
should not have been unexpected f0l
nature long ago hung out her clan.
terms of alarm" When the "acci
dent" finally comes, its fatal effect is
seen in hundred forms; either as
congestion, chronic weakness, as
wrong action, as variable appetite, a.
head troubles, as palpitation and ir
Irregularities of the heart, as prema
ture decay; as dryness and harshness
of the skin causing the hair to drol
out or turn gray, as apOpleXy, a
paralysis, as general debility, blood
poisoning, etc.
"Put no faith then in the wiseacr,
who says there is no danger as Ions
as there is no pain. Put no faith il
the physician, whoever he may be
who says it is a mere cold or a Sigh
indisposition. He knows little,
any, more than you do about it. H
can neither see nor examine these or
gans and depends entirely upon eX
) perimental tests, that you can max
as well as he.
eff the output is discolored or mud
dy, if it contains albumen, lymph
crystals, sweet or morbid matter,
red with escaped blood, or roily wit
gravel, mucus and froth, somethin
is wrong and disease and death az
, not far away. r ,
: "These organs which we have d,
. scribed thus at length, because the
y are really the most important ont
e in the human system, the ones
e which large majority of human al
s mentS originate and are SUSTAINED