Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — PHYSIOLOGICAL. [ARTICLE]

PHYSIOLOGICAL.

In a perfectly formed female figure, twice around the thumb should be once round the wrist; twice round the wrist should be once round the upper arm; twice this Is once round the neck; one and a half times the circumference of the neck equals that of the waist The muscles of the hand reach their highest perfection In man; no other animal has a true hand; the muscles of the eyes, ears and nose show *>»«+ several groups, which in the lower animals are very highly developed, in man are In an almost rudimentary condition. In health aud during exercise the average man has about twenty respirations a minute, and 40 cubic Inches are inhaled at each respiration; In an hour 48,000 cubic Inches o t air will be Inspired; in twenty-four hours 1,152,000 cubic Inches, or about the contents of seventy-eight hogsheads. The pineal gland is a small body almost in the center of the brain. It contains a cavity holding a sandy substance composed of phosphate and carbonate of lime. Its use In the animal economy Is absolutely unknown. Fanciful physiologists have conjectured It to be the seat of the soul. The most noted dwarf was Jeffery Hudson, born in 1619. At the age of 8 he was 18 inches high, and was served upon the table In a cold pie as a present to Charles I. At the age of 80 he began to grow, and reached the height of 3 feet 9 Inches. He lived to be 63, and died in prison, having been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the Popish plot Instances are numerous of persons who, bora without arms, learned to use their feet as hands. Bulwer, In ’’The Artificial Changeling,” tells of John Simonds, a native of Berkshire, who was born armless, but who could write with his mouth, thread a needle with his toe, tie a knot, play cards and do almost anything else that another person usually does with his fingers.