The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-21

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lars One of them makes the quotation Of from the
Psalms appropriate as an introduction.
We invite you first to consider the fearful and wonder
fu arrangement which makes your existence possble sec
ond to consider the folly Of wearing high tight collars
that thwart the plan of your wonderful machinery.
That peculiar creation walking around on two legs,
which you call myself what is it?
is collection OF delicate, sensitive organs; each
could be destroyed with the greatest ease and each is
protected from attack with the utmost ingenuity.
straight on your two legs and walk and run and jump
without losing your balance and falling thousand
times is marvel of leverage and adjustment There is q
little arrangement in your head near the sort OF
carpenters level, that lets you know your balance
Then how your fabby personality is cared for and
armored.
First is the BRAIN SOFT spongy mass It is enclosed
in skull of hard BONE which shuts out practically all
And then the eyes, easily injured sensitive to dust
wind cold, and heat Each is protected by marvellous
curtain called the eyed which washes it, mostens it. heats
il a thousand times in an hour
These two wonderfully adjusted looking glasses round
soft geIatnous mirrors take in and faithfully de-
scribe to part Of the BRAIN far in the back of the head
all the details of the universe In which you i've
The eyeds protect them and note how the bony struc
of the nose the forehead and the cheeks protect them
also You may strike with the fat hand any ordinary blow
against the eye and the eye scarcely feels it. thanks to its
bony armur.
Then notice how the complicated machinery of the
mouth and the throat protected by the strong jaws
The lungs and all the delicate organs around them are
held by the vertebrl column the backbone which does
for bodies what the bean pole does for the lima bean
plant And the circular ribs branching out from the back
bone and meeting in 'front.' protect the heart the lungs and
the stomach in regular bony frame proof against ordinary
attack |
Below the abdomen is shielded with masses of wonder
full muscles which if properly developed sufficient pro-
lection against harm.
Such few of the details our wonderful protective
construction.
And this leads us to that wonderful arrangement called
the nerve and to its relation with the modern
The pneumogastric nerve runs directly from the stom
ach to the front brain 1t is so to say telephone connect
ing the kitchen of the human being with the master of the
house living in the skull far above the stomach.
That nerve going long distance protected in most
ingenious way as are all of the other important nerves of
body
The great nerves are so placed in the body that their
journey to the brain is protected by bony structure by
thick masses Of muscles It is the system followed on the
modern manofwsr The electric wires leading from the CAP
tain in the coming tower which is the brain of the ship
ship protected only by the thckest armorpate but
also by being carried through the of coal kept feed
the engine
The pneumogaStrc nerve is perhaps the most impor-
ant individual IN the entire body. We are very far
yet from fully understanding its real importance It
is the chief communication between the marvellous front
brain and the material individual which that front brain
directs.
In its journey from the stomach to the brain this nerve
protected by strong bone and muscles until it reaches the
neck And there the arrangement for protecting it is in
deed 'fearfuy and wonderfully ingenious The nerve as
it goes through the neck must be protected from injury
In Natures estimate is important than the
great veins that supply the brain with blood.
The pneumogastric nerve is enclosed in the sheath
which protects the carotid artery up through the
neck between the carotid artery and the internal uguar
ven so that is protected both sides by the masses of
liquid in these two great blood vessels
Protected either side by the two great blood YES
sells the amportant pneumogasc nerve goes about its
business taking the important from the stomach to
the front BRAIN which is the boss Nature planned the
arrangement admirably. There could be no better pro-
lection for great than the liquid surrounding of
the carotid artery and the jugular
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foolish improvements that he tries
How often see man pulling at tight collar,
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