Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-12
THEANATOMY OF MAN
SOME HIDDEN FEATURES ANO 9TH
ees THAT ARE USELESS.
An Eye That IL Vow Blind and 6fil'
'That Are Closed tp-The Outer Ears
md the Toe Nails Are More Ornn-
mental Than Seryicenbir.

md the Toe Nails Are More ornn-
mental Than ServicenbIe.
Has any one ever complimentcd you
on the beauty of your upper eye or in
caired' after your gilIst For, though
YOU may not know it, you number
these among the disused features Of
your body.
in the center Of your brain, looking
vaguely siyward, lie the atrophied re-
mains Of third eye, which, it IS sup
posed, was actually one of man 5 use,
full features at some previous state or
Development. 1t is known as the plneal
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
I'D 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 10 carry on your
:
by the four e.....s Which have since
childhood eeased 10 develop and be
come closed up.
Your c7rs that is, the outer ones
are ,,,..,t. ..7s.c.,S SdFe as ornaments.
or e.. .cor .u@t as well without
sIt!. o York e hearing is dCne
e ear. cr tE,I... AMIN. and
k,
- =ae.t..:nt SORT Of finishing
II Ap,liIle sH~;rln. The
ot:cel. 81 re p)werless
- zzs CO cfiitf0!
~, + - s7serc that you have a mini
att5.t ,..z.ssi piano III year auditory
uervc. mel! is tuned Up to every note
IL m"@.e. l94.1 IS known as Eorti's
organ aH5! c9EIs sts Gf Il series Of tiny
hairs Whie.l Nitrate Oh the drum of
your ear AID enable you to distinguish
the differences Of sounds.
AS sometimes when you strike note
on the piano some ornament in the
room Will be found to sing with it, so
each of these hairs inside your ear vi
brates in sympathy W.. the musical
sound corresponding with it,
An appendix IS generally n useful
thing when applied to books, but mans
appendix is not only useless. but very
troublesome This is the remains of
an Intestine supposed to have formed
part of orr ancestors. Though many
OTTER parts of the body are practically
Useless. they are supposed to have
been useful at some time, but scien-
fists cannot trace that the yermiform
appendix Was ever Of any service to
nan.
roe nails are entirely useless, and
toes are quite supernuous man
could get along as we'll without toes
In fact, a doctor removed eight of a
mans toes without any Inconvenience
being suffered, and the loser got along
quite as Well without them.
The teeth are rapidly becoming quite
useless. Now that nearly all our food
is chopped up for us and we do not
have to bite through hard substances
teeth are gradually decaying.
The fact that the teeth of our an
cestors 400 or 800 years ago We're in
finitely bigger than our own shows
that nature is gradually taking away
these organs.
TonsilS. too are almost useless and
fulfill no serv ceable object to the body.
People can get along quite we'll with
out them, aud very large proportion
of the population have had them re-
moved.
Both the hair and the skin have end
ed their days Of usefulness to the hui
man race The hair was intended to
cover our heads from the heat of the
sun, We cover up the hair, and by
shutting it off from the exposure which
nature intended it to have we are
gradually but surely losing this adorn
ment. and it is estimated that in time
we shall cease to grow it.
AS to the skim it was given Us to
protect our bodies from the elements
BY covering it up with clothing and
preventing it getting proper respira-
ton we deprive ourselves Of its use
It is not inconceivable that the man Of
a very remote future period may be
not only hairless and toothless, but
ekinless as well.
The most extraordinary thing to be
noted about all this is that those parts
Of the body which are useless give us
the most trouble. while those in con-
stant activity remain quiescent The
teeth, through lack of work, get lazy,
as il were, and decay
The tonsils having nothing to do, /
make your life a misery to you through
continually swelling until they are re-
moved. The skin, which is useless to
civilized man. has large variety Of
diseases to vent on US, largely due to
its compressed condition.
The vermiform appendix, which is
absolutely useless, has a nice little dis t
ease Of its own, which it develops with +
often fatal results, known as appendi- +
citis
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