The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-02-16

VI ARg STRANGELY MADE.
MANY oaa zAisss Assss Us shss I've.
Docsors Do Not UaAsrstand
Are you aware that you are q sort
Of perambulating metal miner Man
and. indeed. nearly all kinds OF living
animals-has In his system a consid-
ernbie quantity OF iron. II is found In
the more important organs. and there
should also be a good deal In the
blood. Babies possess a fairly large
stock Of iron. nearly three times as
much. comparatively speaking. as
adults.
Then In your bones there In very
large quantity of that metallic base
or lime called calcium. while pros.
phorus II 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 In In the human
body quite an apprcciable amount OF
arsenic. What there is OF this poison
Ia concentrated In the thyroid gland:
and a small quantity is also 20 be
found In the skin. hair. nails, and also
I'm the bones and brain.
There are lots OF odd things about
our human frames which even doc
TORS and other men OF science have
only lately discovered, and OF which
the average person Ii quite unaware.
Few people know. for instance, that
when we 20 10 sleep the whole body
does not sink into insensibllity at the
same moment, says London Answers.
According 10 the researches OF the
French Psychologist, Cabanis, II II 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 sight sleeps first, then the sense OF
taste. and next the sense OF smell.
Hearing goes fourth. and last OF all
the sense OF touch.
Probably you imagine that your
pulse always beats with the same m.
pidity. This In quite mistake. Your
pulse varies with the temperature.
There IL regular. annual rhythm
which may be represented by some
thing like regular curve. Most curl.
Gus OF all, the annual rhythms OF the
pulse In men and women are quite
different. A mans pulse beats more
strongly In winter and fades 20 min
imum In summer. woman's pulse, on
the contrary, displays n winter min.
imum and a summer maximum.
Behind the bridge OF your nose Is
little cavity In the skull. the origin
OF which appears 10 be unknown. IL
probably was a gland consisting OF
two tiny lobes Joined together. and Is
named the sella turcica. Psychologists
believe that this IL the remains OF n
sixth sense which was OF practical
value 20 our antediluvian ancestors.
But whether II enabled them TO see In
the dark In days before they possessed
fire, or helped them TO find their way
through trackless forests rs wild
beasts can to-day. or what other pur-
pose IL may have served. we do not,
and probably never shall know.
There In an unsolved mystery In the
ear OF every human being. The func-
ton Of certain portions OF the inner
ear is not understood. but merely
guessed at
Within the ear are three small globe
shoped pUtuberances. These have
their inner sides covered with small
cells, each Of which contains a tiny
hair surrounded by a fluid. When you
move sharply the hairs follow the mo-
ton, while the lymph naturally moves
less rapidly. Thus the hairs are bent
in a direction opposite TO that OF the
and by means OF delicate
nerves the irritation thus produced In
teiegraphed direct 10 the brain.
IL In supposed that by means Of
these hairs swimming In lymph the
sensation we call dizziness II caused
when we rotate rapidly. as in dancing.
IL IL also believed that seasickness has
10 do with the same phe-
nomenon. IL has been noticed that
some persons when suffering from ear
diseases that have destroyed parts OF
the inner ear. have found Il difficult
Or impossible TO maintain their balance
when standing upright with eyes
closed. IL 10 therefore possible that
these peculiar car organs contain some
nexplioable sense not generally claad-
ned an such-the static sense, or sense
~ balance.