Year: 1865

From the Springfield Republican,


ALI animals eat, drink, breathe, and
the higher orders, those endowed with
brains, sleep. Man stands the highest in
the scale, being classed with the man.
malls, which bring forth living young and
are warm blooded. The whale is also of
this class, breathing the same air that
man does, besides being both viviparous
and warm blooded, in all which respects
he is unlike the fish. Another distinct
i've feature of the mammalia is this -
Their heads are all united to their bod
les by a verbral column consisting of sew
en- bones, whether the distance is meas
ured by feet, as in the giraffe, or by inch
es, as in the mole. The outer surface Of
man is made of small scales which are
continually washing and rubbing off, and
as continually reproducing; in this scaly
surface a likeness to tie fish may be seen.
In anatomical structure a great similari-
ty to man is found in the hog, and in
general appearance, size and location, the
internal organs OF the latter may be con-
sidered a copy of the former. The hu-
man brain is, however, an exception, be-
ing larger; the largest, in fact, found in
the animal kingdom in proportion to the
size of the body to which it belongs as a
class.


The human integument is double; the
outer layer is termed the cuticIe, the in
ner the true skin. The former may be
raised by a blister which is a life process,
as dead flesh may be burned but never
bIistered. It is without feeling, has few
points of interest, and may be considered
as shield simply for the true skin un-
derneath. The latter is so abundantly
supplied with minute nerves and blood
vessels that we can hardly insert a need
Ie anywhere on the body without drawing
blood and feeling pain. The sensitivness
of the skin is early taught the child by
the mothers hand. and the masters ferule
often keeps up the recollection. The
true skin serves as a soil for the growth
of the hairs, near the roots of which are
oil glands which give the hairs a glossy
coating by their secretion. The hairs
arc much like corn stalks, with hard
exterior and pithy inside. The coloring
matter is deposited in the latter fthis
eoloring matter is deposited through loss
of vigor in the secretory functions, gray
ness supervenes; and if the roots of the
hair are fail in their functions, wholly,
badness comes on. Grayness arises by
degrees generally, but cases are known
where the hair of the head has been
blanched completely in a single night or
other space of time nearly as limited, and
owing to mental anxiety generally. The
case of Captain West formerly of the
steamer Atlantic, has been stated as one
occasioned by the care and labor incident
to a storm at sea. when all on board the
vessel expected for hours to go to the
bottom. Two other came under my no
tiee in New York city. Preparations for
coloring the hair and obviating grayness
in that way, often contain milk ofsulphur
and sugar of lead, sometimes bay oil, a
resinous oil which when cut by alcohol
forms bay rum. This oil is said to pro-
mote a dark color in the hair if used by
itself. Badness is difficult to overcome
often especially in the aged, though there
are preparations recommended for remov-
ing it, which, It's said, will renew the
hair worn on an old trunk, or if spread
on q shingle will make a shoe brush of it
in twenty -four hours.


Innumerable tubes pass through the
skin, by means of which much of the flu
ids taken into the body is e1creted, pas