The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-07-22
NOT WHOLLY SOUND.
yearly Everybody Has Sons Organ
which IL Below Normal Condition.

Seary EveryDody HAS SONS organ
which Is Below Normal Condition.
The autopsy performed the other
lay on the body OF a murderer dis
,losed the fact that he was very
much diseased man. Judging from
,he statement of the physicians it
seems as though nearly every vital
organ. from the brain TO the spleen
iad something the matter with It,
reports OF post-mortem examinations
always seem to disclose a remarkable
number OF such abnormalities, even
n the apparently healthy person
who has been suddenly killed by an
accident. 1.-The fact is. that hardly
any human being. even in the flush OF
youth ana health. is wholly sound"
said DIR. ID. 5. Lamb OF the Army
medical museum, to Washington
Star reporter.
'Even the sturdicst children are
not so. The reason Of it is that all
human beings are constantly liable
to accidents which are apt to be per-
manent. Our lungs are affected by
the dust we breathe The exposure
to colds which we must encounter
now and then leave their traces OF
all the people whose bodies have
1issectcd after death not less than
one-half have exhibited Indications
Of an attack of leurisy at some time
in the past. Doubtless most of them
never knew that they had suffered
from the complaint Beginning life
as a squalling infant. one goes
through the world meeting injury
after injury through exposure. acct
dent and disease. These injuries
leave their traces on various organs
Of the body. When AN autopsy i,
performed they are apparent TO the
eye OF the physician. However. even
the vital organs may work very we'll,
Notwithstanding the existence OF ac.
1uired abnorma!itics. Though YOU
yourself have every appearances of
being sound and healthy you are not
completely so in reality. DO you
not wear Eyeglasses because the
shape Of your eyes j. not normala
And are there not gold filings in
gour teeth whore they have decaycd?
"As ! have said. none of Us is
wholly sound. An autopsy would
not give either you or me a clean
bill of health. As we advance in !ifo
the complete integrity of our physical
structure is more and more impaired.
By the time we reach old age it has
got TO be shaky. What, then. keeps
us from dying? 1t is a power of
resistance inherent in the individual
Nobody knows where that power lies.
but it exists People of temperate and
careful habit, live longer than others,
because they avoid injuries and eX-
posures. We often find abnormalitics
in the skeletons of human beings
Occasionally q man or woman will
have twenty-siX ribs thirteen on
side instead of the usual twenty
four. This is regarded a. revision
to primitive type of structure in
a.much as many monkeys have
thirteen ribs on each side The
anthropoid apes have only twenty
four ribs OF all mammals the bat
has the least number of ribs Man
at BIS full development has the
smallest number of bones among all
mammals, and rodents possess the
greatest number, All mammals have
seven bones in the neck, with two
exceptions The stoth has nine and
the sea COW eight. No matter how
long the neck is it always has seven
vertebrT. The giraffe has only AS
many bones in its neck as a man has;
the difference is that they are
longer