The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-12-21
George E Walsh in Associated Sun
DAY MaEaZine.1

George E Walsh in Associated Sun
day MagaZne.o
So fearfully and wonderfully is the
human body made that scientists are
beginning to realize that many OF the
inventions OF the day are infringe
ments on Natures patent Office A
good deal Of trouble and TOrry in the
past could have been avoided had in
VentOrs made a careful study OF the
devices employed in making these
human bodies OF ours the useful
things they are. The principles OF the
block and pulley or the tackle could
have been discovered ages before had
the files Of Natures patent office
been ransacked; for there are several
complete pulleys in the body, notably
the one which moves the eyeban in
ward toward the nose
The First Ball Bearings
Engineers made exhaustive tests
and experiments before they discOv-
cred that hollow shaft or rod OF iron
or steel is about twice as strong as
solid one Yet Nature had patented
this device in our bones since the
birth OF Adam and Eve, and every i'm
pOrtant bone 3 practically construct
ed on this principle The ball and
socket OF the hip bones were the fore
runner OF the modern bail bearings,
and Il was the first automatic Oiling
machine used in the world The
value Of air pressure and a vacuum
was unknown to man until the last
century, but everyone OF rs carried
the secret in the air tight hlO joint
which Nature had designed TO lessen
the muscular effort to hold our legs
upright in position
Engineers have made wonderful
progress in developing compound sue
ton and circular pumps; but all Of
the PRINCIPLES contained in them are
found IN the heart, and this little
pumping machine is still without a
rival in the mechanical VOC D. Ma
ture had patented nearly everyone OF
the devices which have since been
registered at Washington
The principles Of the safety valve
for steam engines are not so new as
they seem Our human bodies carry
with them the first automatic safety
valves ever designed There are up
ward OF two and q half million OF
them We call them by the cOtumOn
name OF sweat glands, Each such
/ little gland has safety Tal.s which
| lets go heat from the body when 1t
gets beyond a safe temperature We
| cannot stand a rise OF more than
| eight to ten degrees Of temperature
and live. II, therefore, the two and a
/ half million safety valves were closed
/ for twenty-fOur hours death would
| Supervene-
Adams apple was the first storage
| Cistern ever built, and it works with
| automatic regularity through health
| and sickness 1t is a most important
| organ Of the body, although for cen
| turtles IL was considered a superhuOus
| attachment It regulates the flow Of
| blood between the heart and the
| brain. When it ceases to operate,
! somebody dies Of apOplexy or a rush
| Of blood to the brain. When the
/ heart sends up too much blood to the
1 head, the Adams apple steps in to
| check the flow and store it up for fu-
| ture emergencies. II the heart is tenn
pOrarily weakened or put out Of good
| running order, the blood stored in
/ this cistern is given up and sent 70
| the brain. The perfect working Of
Il this little device is apparent when
! we consider how comparatively few
Il die OF rush OF blood to the brain OF
| from deficiency Of supply.
Our Quarantine Stations.
| The eye has a score OF small inven-
1 tons worthy Of recording, the ear
| nearly as many more, and the vital
/ organs an equal number There Is the
L liver with its quarantine station Lei
| any poison enter our systems WIKI
| food, and they are ir'mediately held
up at this quarantine station and de-
/ strOyed by a secret process 1t is
L only when pOisOns enter in large
| quantities that the station cannot
/ handle them.
| But the stomach cooperates with
| the liver and intercepts some Of the
| DOiSOns. There are small machines
l there which manufacture minute
! quantities OF nyQrOcnlOrlC aclQ IIOI
| the salts eaten. This acid is made in
| exact proportion to the amount OF
/ food consumed, and suf1ces to destroy
i the microbes which we swallow. But
/ there is even a third quarantine sta
l ton located in the mouth Millions
Of microbes are destroyed in the
mouth daily by the juices elaborated
/ there for this very purpose. If it was
not for these three quarantine sta
tons working continuously night and
day we should be killed OF by mic
robes within an hour after eating &
meal.
In the heart there is a little device
| which might have been the original
| OF our modern compressed air in
ventiOns- The delicate drum OF the
ear must have an equal pressure from
the outside and inside to receive and
| transmit the sound vibrations. TIC
make this possible the Eustachiar
| tube was devised. Its function is e
regulate the air pressure inside the
/ ear. Let it fail to work, and one be-
comes stone deaf.
4 Human Spirit Levels
In the bones OF the head there are
many little channels followed out
/ which are called the semi-circulaI
L.