The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-05
SOME FACTS ABOUT ALco-
HOLICS AND NARCOTICS.

GA Lecture delivered at the First
Presbyterian Church of Roswell on
Sunday evening, Sept. 27, 1908, by
D. H. Galloway, M. d.
There comes a time in the life of
every boy when it is not sufficient to
say Don't" when it is legitimate for
him to ask why should 1 do this or
why should I not dS that? 1 will not
enumerate the don't for everyone
of you has has heard each Of them
sons why you should not do some
things and why you should deny your
selves certain things which you re-
gard as pleasures, some things you
should refrain from doing because
they have a bad effect on yourselves,
others because they affect or dis
please your neighbors or friends. But
your lives are so interviewer with the
lives of others that what is unpleas-
ant or harmful to others is pretty
sure to react at least unpleasantly on
yourself. If you believed all this it
would be unnecessary for me to say
what 1 am going to, because there is
scarcely a sane person living who
would not rather do right than wrong
were he sure the right thing would
always be best for MIN. l am going
to take pains to convince you that
what / say is true, and in order that
Won NAV ha convinced will foil Won
some things about yourselves that
may be new to you. If you should
pause to study this matter, you
would probably think of your bodies
as well made machines, which were
started like a clock when you were
long as you lived. While the human
body has sometimes been likened
to machine, it is better to think of
it as a great city of countless indi-
viduals, each individual living its
own fife and doing rs own work, but
each one being dependent on the 9th
ers in a most wonderful manner. 1T
is not a homogeneous mass like a
stone or piece of metal. but it is a
community of an enormous number
of individuals, each having something
to do for itself and something for all
the rest. Each one of these minute in
dfviduals is called CELL The human
body is made of millions andmill1ons
few kinds. All these cells are work
ers, so far as we know, not one of
them is shirk. They have lived to-
gether so long that they have divid-
ed up their work, and though each
one is an expert in his own line, he
can scarcely do anything in any 9TH
er line. Just as in a city, the plumber
cannot do carpenter work, the carp
enter cannot do blacksmithing, nor
can blacksmith repair a watch. Ger
tain of these cells are called bone
cells, and they form the framework
for the body; other cells are called
muscle cells, and they together move
the bones and other parts; others are
mold the muscles together and to the
bones. Others form themselves into
special groups for special purposes.
The brain cells guide, control, direct
and coordinate the work of all the
others. The nerve cells are the mes
sengers who carry the orders from
the brain to all other parts of the
body. The blood is a complex liquid
which carries food and air to all parts
and the heart is special group of
muscle cells which pump the blood
through all the tubes called arteries
and veins and carries much of the
waste to the lungs there to be thrown
off into the air. The blood is water
containing a few salts in solution and
in it are millions of little round cells
which are red and which carry air
to the other little people in all parts
of the body. Mixed in with these red
cells are others which are round and
white. the white blood corpuscles, and
these act as soldiers to keep off enc
mics and as scavengers to remove
Objectionable material which cannot
be otherwise gotten rid of. This
great city must be supplied from the
outside with all things which are
ueedfuul for its growth and develop
ment. The things needful are food
in great variety which is taken in
through the mouth and stomach, and
air which gets in by the way of the
lungs.
The skin and mucous m embrance
are coats of mail to keep out the
countless enemiet which beset the
body on every hand and gain an en-
trance only to destroy. The indi-