The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-09-11
STUDY YOUR NOSE.
1t Is Most Wonderful Organ and
a Really Fine Furnace.
ACTS AS A PERFECT FILTER.

t This Facial Ornament Strains, Heat
: and Moistens All Air Drawn Through
II Into the Lunss-Its Delicate Nerves
and Microbe Catching Mucus.
Ordinarily we regard our own or an
other persons nose from the stand
point of personal beauty. If the organ
is becoming one it wins our adnira
ton. and unless occasion arises we
give it no further thought. A delicious
or a repugnant odor reminds us at
times that we possess a sense of smell,
and cold in the head is apt to make
us wish that there was no such thing
as nose.
Beyond these points. however. we
| really penetrate, and as a rule we fail
to fully realize what an important part
| of the human anatomy is this most
prominent feature of the face.
No stove or furnace that ever was
made by man can equal in efficiency
the human nose. for the nose. In the
space of three inches and in two sec
onds of time. can raise the tempera-
ture of the air 1t draws In nearly fifty
degrees and at the same time saturate
1t with moisture and thoroughly puri-
fy It.
The nose is really one of the most
extraordinary organs of the body. Its
nerves are more sensitive than those
Of fingers or ears or eyes, for they can
perceive distinctly an almost incredi-
bly, minute amount of a gas so subtle
that Its presence can be detected in no
other way. 1t Is also perfect filter
and thus the most important guardian
of the body against disease.
All air that is breathed into the
lungs should be at a temperature of
nearly 30 degrees F. 1t should also be
moist. even wet Cold. dry air is fine
for the outside of the body. but has no |
place in its interior. In eating the air |
the nose works on the principle of o
steam coil, 1t is not merely two tubes
leading up into the head and so down
TO the throat. but from the bones on
either side three twisted bones curl
out into the passage. one above the
other. each coated with elastic cush-
ons of blood vessels and tiny glands.
These form coils with a great. hot.
lamp surface. over which the air
spreads as 1t is drawn up Thus is
the air warmed for its entrance to the
ungs
A furnace maker told the present
writer that any man who could invent
IN efficient apparatus for mixing
with air in its passage !
through hot air furnace could make
fortune. as every device now In use !,
5 only a makeshift and of very lit
lie real value. The Almighty Maker
the Humankind the animai-nose J
olved the problem. The entire sur +
nee of the inside of the nose is com f
osed of membrane that pours forth Z
fluid called mucus. This is composed '
lrgely of salt water. which is taken
p by the passing air until this is sat
rated before it reaches the throat.
This mucus is also a microbe catcher II
nd dust catcher. Almost all the s
rt and germs Of disease that enter t,
18th the air through the nostrils are h
appel by the mucus. The living en- 6,
mics are killed. for the mucus is anti 4,
,ptic and germicidal. Thus the air is y
eated. moistened and purified before K
reaches the lungs. g
Air breathed in through the mouth is d'
1t warmed. moistened or purified ex r
ut to a very slight extent. Conse-
ieDtly it reaches the lungs cold. dry
I'd laden with dust and disease. ce
tonsilitis. diphtheria and i
are the result. =,
The mucous membrane of the nose 'i
subject to diseases such as catarrh. I'd
old In the head" and hay fever. TO
lenoids grow In the back of the nose ri
d stop up its tubes. A simple and vi
sy operation will remove the latter. =
lille the former If taken when they
st show themselves can be cured
thout difficulty. If neglected they
" become incurable. Thus not only
they prevent the necessary warm VIZ
:. moistening and filtering Of the air,
t they spread and cause many dis -
'es of the throat and lungs and are FL
, commonest cause OF serious and en-
ensely painful trouble with the loo
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