Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-05-04
THEANATOMY OF MAN
SOME HIDDEN FEATURES ANo 9TH
ERS THAT ARE USELESS.
An Eye That II Now Blind aud ellis
That Are Closed Jp--The Outer Ears
and the Toe Nails Are More OrIna-
mental Than serviccabIe.


mental Than serviccabIe.
Has any one ever complimcnted you
on the beauty OF your upper eye OF in
quired after your giils? For though
these among the disused features OF
your body
In the center OF your brain, looking
vaguely skyward. lie the atrophied re-
mains of a third eye. which. IL is sup
posed, was actually one of mans use
full features at some previous state OF
development. It is known as the pineaI
gland. though covered by skin. and Is
formed in an almost perfect condition
in certain lizards.
You have four gills. or bronchial
clefts. which. however. are now closed
up and useless. You originally had
six. but two OF them. by forming into
your ear and mouth. respectively.
turned themselves TO some account
However. before your lungs developed
and became fitted TO carry on your
breathing system. the work was done
by the four gills which have since
childhood ceased 10 develop and be-
come closed Up.
Your cars-that Is, the outer ones
are quite useless save as ornaments.
You could hear just as well without
them. All the work OF hearing IL done
by the middle ear. or tympanum. and
the internal ear. The outer feature IL
purely a pleasant sort Of finishing
touch TO Your hearing system. The
muscles Of the outer car are powerless
ana not under our control.
Are you aware that you have q mini
allure grand piano IN your auditory
nerve. which is tuned ~ 10 every note
in music? This is known az Corti's
organ and consists OF a series OF tiny
hairs which vibrate on the drum OF
your car and enable you To distinguish
the differences Of sounds.
As sometimes when you strike a note
on the piano some ornament I'm the
room will be found 20 sing with II. so
each Of these hairs inside your ear VI
brates I'm sympathy with the musical
sound corresponding with II.
An appendix is generally 4 useful
thing when applied 10 books. but mans
appendix is not only useless. hut very
troublesome. This Is the remains Of
an intestine supposed 10 have formed
part 81 orr ancestors. Though many
other parts OF the body are practically
useless. they are supposed 10 have
been useful AT some time. but scicn-
lists cannot trace that the vermiform
appendix was ever OF any service 10
man.
Toe nails are entirely useless and
toes are quite supcrnuous. 4 man
could get along as well without toes
Ia fact. "a doctor removed eight Of
mans toes without any Inconvenience
being suffered. ana the loser got along
quite rs well without them
The teeth are rapidly becoming quite
useless. Fow that nearly all our food
is chopped mp for us AMI we Go not
have 60 bite through hard substances
teeth are gradually dccaying
The fact that the teeth Of our an
cestors 400 or 900 years ago were In-
hnitely bigger than our own shows
that nature is gradually taking away
these organs.
Tonsils. too. are almost useless and
tAAAAA +AN ~ ~ tAA 10 AAlt AhitAA.
People can get along quite we'll with
out them. and very large proportion
Of the population have had them re-
moved.
Both the hair and the skin have end
ell their days of usefulness 10 the hu-
man race. The hair was intended 10
cover our heads from the heat Of the
sun. We cover up the hair. and 10y
shutting It of from the exposure which
nature intended 10 10 have We arc
gradually but surely losing this adorn-
ment and IL is estimated that in time
we shall cease 10 grow 4.
As 10 the skin. IL was given rs 10
protect our bodies from the clements.
BY covering It Up with clothing and
preventing It getting proper respira-
ton we deprive ourselves or its use.
IL is not incOnceivable thar the man OF
very remote future period may be
not only hairless and tOothlesS. hut
SkinlcSs as well.
The most extraordinary thing 10 be
noted about all this IS that those parts
of the body which are useless give US
the most trouble. while those in con
slant activity remain QuieScent. The
teeth. through lack Of work. get lazy.
rs il were, and decay.
The tOnsilS. having nothing 10 do.
make your life q misery 10 YOU through
continually swelling until they are re-
moved. The skin. which is useless 10
civilized man. has q large variety Of
diseases 10 vent on Us. largely due -
its COmDFCSSpd condition,
The vermiform appendix. which Is
absolutely useless, has nice little dis
ease Of its own, which it develops with
often fatal results, known rs appendl-
citiS.
y man can 1--we without his frontal
bone. At recent accident a workman
was struck by a crowbar The only
possibility OF saving his life was by
eXciSing the frontal bone. The result
was that the man survived. without Sc
riouS injury, though he was conscious
Of some mental defect.
1t is quite possible that an artist.
writer or musician would find the er-
feet OF tho removal TO deprive him OF
the particular faculty for producing
his work, but otherwise bis brain
would be unaffected for It's ordinary
functions.
The Truth OF L.
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