Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-15
THE ANATOMY OF MAN
SOME HIDDEN FEATURES AND 9TH
ERS THAT kRe USELESS.
An Eye That Is Vow Blind and 6fIls
That Are Closed Ip--The Outcr Ears
and the Toe Nails Are More Orna-
mental Than s,cr>iccnble.

Has any one ever complimcnted you
on the beauty Of your upper eye or in
CURED after your 2ills? 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 I>ywayd, lie the atrophied re-
mains OF 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 pineal
gland though covered by skin, and il
formed in an almost perfect condition
Ia certain lizards.
You have four giIls, or bronchial
clcfts, which. however. are now closed
up and useless You originally had
six. hut two of them, by forming into
| your ear and mouth, respectively,
| turned themselves to some account.
| However. before your lungs developed
and hccanAe fitted TO carry on Your
breathing system. the work WAS done
| by the four oils which have since
| Vhil0huOd ceased to develop and he
| come closed UP
Your ears that is, the outer ones
are quite useless save as ornaments.
You could hear just US we'll without
them. All the work of hearing is done
by The middle ear. or tvmpanum. and
the internal ear. The outer feature is
purely pleasant sort of finishing
touch TO Your hearing system. The
muscles of the outer ear are powerless
ana not under our control
Are you aware that YOU have a mini,
htlre grand piano in your auditory
nerve. which is tuned up to every note
LII music: This is known as Gorti,s
organ and consists of a series Of tiny
heirs which sihrate on the drum of
your ear and enable You To distinguish
the differences OF sounds.
AS sometimes when YOU strike a note
on the piano some ornament in the
room will be found to sing with II. so
each of these hairs inside your ear Vi
hratcs III sympathy with the musical
sound corresponding with it.
An appendix is generally q 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 our ancestors. Thongh many
other parts OF the body are practically
| useless, they are supposed to lave
been useful at some time. hut seien-
| fists cannot trace that the vermiform
| appendix was ever nf nny service to
| han.
! Toe nails are entirely useless, and
toes are quite superfnous. A man
could get along as well without toes
In fact. doctor removed eight OF q
mans toes without any Inconvenience
| being suffered. and the loser got alon.
quite as We'll 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
fnitely bigger shan Our own shows
| that nature is gradually taking away
| these organs
| fulfill no serv' ceahle object to the body
People can get along quite we'll with
out them AID a very large proporl ion
OF the population have had them re-
| moved.
Both the hair and the skin have end
ed their days OF usefulness to the hn-
man race The hair was intended 70
cover our heads from the heat Of thr
sun. We cover UP the hair. and by
shutting it off from the exposure which
| nature intended it to have we arc
gradually but surely losing this adorn
! ment. and it IS estimated that in time
we shall cease to grow it.
AS to the skin, il was given rs to
protect our bodies from the elements
BY covering il III with clothing and
preventing il getting proper respira
ton we deprive ourselves of its use
1t is not inconceivahle that the man of
very remote future period may be
not only hairless and toothloss. but
slSinlcss 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 quicscent TIE
teeth, through lack of work, get lazy.
as it were, and decay.
The tonsils. having nothing to do
make your life q 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
ease Of its own. which it develops with
often fatal results, known as append.
citis.