The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-09-27
HOW PEOPLE SLEEP IN PIECES.
When Exhausted Humanity Rests
the Body Reposes In Sections.


Are you aware that your are a sort
of perambulating metal nine? Man
and, indeed, nearly all kinds OF living
animals-has in his system a consider
able quantity of iron. 1t Is found IN
the more important organs, and there
should also be good deal In the
blood. Babies possess fairly large
stock of iron, nearly three times as
much, comparatively speaking, as
adults.
Then in your bones there is very
large quantity of that metallic base OF
lime called calcium; while phosphorus
is also present in bones in SO large an
amount that they are the main source
of the worlds supply of that valuable
article. Stranger still, there Is in the
human body an appreciable amount or
arsenic. What there is of this poison
is concentrated in the thyroid gland;
and a small quantity is also to be
found in the skin, hair, nails and also
in the bones and brain. There are lots
of odd things about our human frames
which even doctors and other men OF
science have only lately discovered,
and of which the average person Is
quite unaware. Few people know, for
instance, that when we go to sleep the
whole body does not sink into insen-
sibility at the same moment.
According to the researches Of the
French Psychologist Cabanis, it is the
muscles of the legs and arms which
lose their power first. Next, those
which support the head; and, thirdly.
the muscles which sustain the back.
So, too, with the senses. The sense of
taste, and next the sense of smell.
Hearing goes fourth, and last of all
the sense of touch. Probably you i'm
agine that your pulse always beats
with the same rapidity This is quite
a mistake. Your pulse varies with the
temperature. There is a regular, UNI
usual rhythm. which may be repre-
sented by something like regular
curve. Most curious of all, the annual
rhythms of the pulse in men and wom-
en- are quite different. A mans pulse
beats more strongly in winter and
fades to minimum in summer. Wom-
ans pulse, on the contrary, displays
winter minimum and a summer maxi
mum.
Behind the bridge OF your nose is a
little cavity in the skull, the origin Of
which appears to be unknown. 1t pro-
hah1v was q GLAND noueic+i,,o NJ tuo
tiny lobes, Joined together, and is
named the sella turcica. Psychologists
believe that this IS the remains of a
sixth sense, which was of practical
value to our antediluvian ancestors.
But whether it enabled them to see in
the dark in days before they possessed
fire, or helped them to find their way
through trackless forests as wild
beasts can today, or what other pur-
pose it may have served, we do not
know, and probably never snail know.
There is an unsolved mystery in the
ear of every human being. The function
of certain portions of the inner ear is
not understood, but merely guessed at.
Within the ear are three small globe
shaped protuberances. These have their
inner sides covered with small cells,
each of which contains a tiny hair
surrounded by fluid. When you move
sharply the hairs follow the motion,
while the lymph naturally moves less
rapidly. Thus the hairs are bent in
direction opposite to that of the move
ment, and by means of delicate nerves
the irritation thus produced is tele-
graphed direct to the brain. 1t is sup
posed that by means of these hairs
swimming in lymph the sensation we
call dizziness is caused when we ro-
tate rapidly, as in dancing. 1t is also
believed that seasickness has some
thing to do with the same phenome-
non. 1t has been noticed that some
persons, when suffering from ear dis
eases that have destroyed parts of
the inner ear, have found it difficult
or impossible to maintain their balance
when standing upright with closed
eyes. 1t is therefore possible that these
peculiar ear organs contain some in
explicable sense not generally CLASH
fed as such--the static sense, or sense
of balance.-Pearsons Weekly.
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