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Title: A healthy body. A textbook on anatomy, physiology, hygiene, alcohol, and narcotics. For use in intermediate grades in public and private schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Stowell, Charles H(enry) 1850- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Human physiology
Publisher: Chicago, J.C. Buckbee and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rt, called the true skin, it brings both painand blood. It is possible to remove the cuticle by gentlyscraping the skin with a knife. The skin will then lookred, and will be likely to bleed. The True Skin. The true skin, called the cutis, isfilled with nerves and blood-vessels. It is impossibleto put the point of a needle in it anywhere and not toucha nerve, giving pain, or a blood-vessel bringing a dropof blood. There are small muscles which contract theskin, giving it the appearance known as goose pim-ples. Some of the muscles, as shown in Fig. 48, arefastened to the hairs in such a way that they can makethe shorter ones stand more nearly erect. In thedeeper parts of the skin are two kinds of glands, — thesweat-glands, and the oil-glands. 10 146 A HEALTHY BODY. The Sweat-Glands. A small magnifying-glass will showthe openings of the sweat-glands on the ridges that appearso plainly on the ends of the fingers and the palms of thehands. These openings are close together, and look like
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i Y/:j.c::^sf^^^ ?. - .■1^^. ^-.- ^ /i yM -^^^^ - Fig. 48. Section of human skin, magnified: (1) the outer layer, the epidermis;(2) the duct of a sweat-gland; (3) the gland itself ; (4) the ending of a nerve,for the sense of touch; (5) blood-vessels; (6) a hair-follicle; (7) muscle. little pits, or depressions. They are the ends of tubeswhich go down into the skin about one fourth of aninch, and then coil up in a round mass like a ball. Thereare about three millions of these glands in the wholeskin; their function is to take water and some other THE vSKIN. 147 substances from the blood and pour them on the surfaceof the skin, causing perspiration, or sweat. In feversthese glands arc inactive, and the skin becomes hot anddry. Two Kinds of Perspiration. Sensible perspiration is thesecretion that accumulates on the surface in varyingamounts. Tliis is most marked Avhen the body is activeand when it is surrounded by warm air. There are

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