Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-22


man until the last century, but every
one Of us carried the secret In the air
tight hip joint which nature had mn
signed to lessen the muscular effort TO-
hold our legs upright III position. 81
Engineers have made wonderfnl
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 rival in tho
mechanical world. 5:ss
The principles Of the safety vasvs
for steam engines are not SO new ar
they seem. Our human bodies carry
with them the first automatic safety
valves ever designed. There are up
ward Of 2,50O, 600 Of them. We call
them by the common name OF sweat
glands. Each such little gland has 4
safety valve which let's OF heat from
the body when it gets beyond safe
temperature We cannot stand q riss
OF more than 8 to 10 degrees OF tenn
perature and live. III therefore the
100000 safety valves we're closed for
twenty-four hours. death would super
vene. 81
Adams apple was the first storage
cistern! ever built. and II works with
automatic regularity through health
and sickness II IS d most iInpeFtant
organ of the body, al though for cen
turtles it was consid ered q srperfuousE
attachment IL res nlates the doWSof'
blood between the heart and the brain.
When it ceases to operate, somebody
dies of apoplexy or q. rush Of blood to-
the brain. When the heart sends up
too much blood to the head, the Adams
apple steps in to check the foW and:
store 1t up for future emergencies. lf
the heart Is temporarily weakened or
\ put out Of good running order. the
blood stored IN this cistern Is given up
and sent to the brain. The perfect
4 working Of this little device Is appar-
emit when we consider how compare
lively few die of rush of blood to the
brain Or from a deficiency of supply
The eye has score of small inven-
I lions worthy Of recording, the ear
nearly as many more and the vital
organs an equal number. There is the
liver with its quarantine station. Let
any pDisons enter our systems with
food and they are immed iately neld up
aat this quarantine station and destroy
ed by secret process. 1t is only
when poisons enter III large quantities
that the station cannot handle them.
4 BUT the stomach coop with the
liver and intercepts some Of the poi
sons There are small machines there
which manufacture minute quantities
/. OF hydrochloric acid from the salts
eaten. This acid is made in exact pro-
4 portion to the amount Of food consum-
ed and suffices to destroy the microbes
\ which we swallow. But there is even
! u third quarantine station located In
y the mouth. Millions of microbes are
destroyed ia the mouth daily by the
ttifces elaborated there for this very
purpose. II it was not for these three
.quaranti tine sta lions working continu-
ously night and day, we should be XIII
led soff by microbes within an hour art
ser eating meal.
1, Ii the ear there is a little device
i which might have been the original 81
Il our modern compressed an Inventions.
The delicate drum Of the ear must have
an equal pressure from the outside and
s inside to receive and transmit the
1esound vibrations. TO make this pos
/ sfble the eustachian tube was devised.
Its function Is to regulate the air pres
enfe inside the ear. Let it fail tc work.
ind one becomes stone deaf