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Title: Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cunningham, Henry S., M.D. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women Women
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind., G. F. Borst & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rer asks our aid no more,—These gracious words our welcome, our reward,Ye served your brothers ; ye have served your Lord !—Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. A man traveling along a country road found anotherlying by the wayside, and his horse waiting for him toremount. Traveler No. 1 inquired what the difficultywas, and being informed by No. 2 that he had fallenfrom his horse and fractured his leg, responded, Oh !is that all? I thought you had the toothache. Thislittle anecdote fairly illustrates the fact that in orderto properly appreciate suffering we must have suffered. As not a few of the ills to which we are subject inlife come to us from without it is important that I firstcall your attention to the anatomical construction ofthe skin, the influence it has upon the general health, 16 tup: physiological laws of and the great necessity of keeping it in a normal con-dition by frequent bathing. We have here a cut or plate showing the two coats i=; \cPIO£-JJM/Sg.l Off i§-\ Cuticle
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She at Slaw.* Nutrient Artery The Skin and its Appendages. (Gray.) or layers; the derma or cutis vera and the eperdermisor cuticle. The cutis vera has two. layers, the deep orcorium and the superficial or papilla. The perspiratoryglands of the skin are scattered everywhere throughoutthe integument,.being most abundant on the anterior LIFE AND HYGIENE. 17 portions of the body. They consist each of a slendertube about ^J-g- of an inch in diameter, lined withglandular epithelium; they penetrate the entire thick-ness of the skin and terminate below (as you see bythe plate), in globular coils. A net-work of capillaryvessels envelope the coils and supply the glands with

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